Australia will impose mandatory safety rules on AI. Are we focused on the right risks?

By Henry Fraser, Law Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just announced six mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) safety guardrails.

The government will establish a new AI safety regulator to enforce the regulations, with the power to impose significant penalties.

According to the guardrails, frontier AI companies – the ones with the most powerful AI models at the cutting edge of AI development – will have to:

implement security controls
identify…

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