Australia’s official plan for AI safety isn’t much more than a single dot point. Will it be enough?

By José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Henry Fraser, Research Fellow in Law, Accountability and Data Science, Queensland University of Technology

Last week, one of Australia’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, Toby Walsh, warned Australia’s lack of guardrails for AI is putting young people at risk of being “sacrificed for the profits of big tech”.

Walsh’s remarks came after the government scrapped its own proposal to establish an advisory body of AI experts. Instead,…

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