Australia’s artificial intelligence discourse has been captured by “majoritarian thinking” that accepts a social cost for claims of massive economic value, former privacy watchdog Malcolm Crompton warned on Monday while trying to reframe the current debate.
“You always hear the words risk management, but nobody asks the prior question: risk allocation,” Mr Crompton, who was Australia’s Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004 said at the NSW government’s Future of AI summit in Sydney.
Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence use in the last 12 months, Australia’s policy and law makers have scrambled to keep up, with no shortage of stakeholder input.
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