Industry and science minister Ed Husic is moving at pace to modernise Australia’s legal frameworks on artificial intelligence and says Australia can build a regulatory model that could be adopted in other countries.
While there are “probably a dozen different laws that currently exist that take into account the impact of AI and have some sort of response”, the advent of generative AI tools in the mainstream requires a modernisation of Australia’s legal frameworks to deal with the risk and to maximise the potential benefits, Mr Husic said.
“I want us to be able to set up a legal framework or model of regulations that can be used by other countries as well. We should be world leaders in this space, taking into account what’s happening overseas, but levering off our own background,” he said.
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