Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope

By Jessica Russ-Smith, Associate Professor of Social Work and Chair, Indigenous Research Ethics Advisory Panel, Australian Catholic University
Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade, Senior Research Fellow – Responsible AI Lead, AI and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Sturt University
Michelle D. Lazarus, Director, Centre of Human Anatomy Education, Monash University

Earlier this month, Australia’s long-anticipated National AI Plan was released to a mixed reception.

The plan shifts away from the government’s previously promised mandatory AI safeguards. Instead, it’s positioned as a whole-of-government roadmap for building an “AI-enabled economy”.

The plan has raised…

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