Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) safety regulator, which will enforce penalties for frontier AI companies that breach their obligations.
The government is also considering criminal law changes to deal with serious misconduct by any of these companies. ...
The six mandated requirements for companies are:
- maintain security controls across all stages of AI development and deployment
- identify and manage serious risks associated with models
- quickly provide mandatory notification of incidents to the Australian government
- allow independent evaluation of models
- maintain and publish safety and security frameworks to ensure good governance, risk management and transparency
- respond to updated standards and rules as technologies change.
Albanese said these protections were in line with recommendations from the parliamentary joint select committee on AI. ...
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