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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Butler

Everyone in Canberra agrees action is needed on AI. But what to do and how? And at what cost?

A doctor using AI tech
Labor says it wants to get its AI policies right but pressure is mounting for decisions to be made. Photograph: Cherdchai Chawienghong/Getty Images

Despite commissioning another process into how Australia might deal with artificial intelligence, the Labor government will soon have to stop studying and start making decisions about how (and how much) to regulate the rapidly ballooning technology.

Like many regulation questions in the tech space – see the under-16s social media ban, the long-delayed response to Peta Murphy’s gambling advertising report and questions about the news bargaining incentive – any move is likely to raise hackles of at least half, probably more, of the participants in the discussion.

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