Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic unveiled 10 new voluntary guidelines on AI Systems and said the government has opened a month-long consultation on whether to make them mandatory in future in high-risk settings.
“Australians know AI can do great things, but people want to know there are protections in place if things get out of hand,” Husic said in a statement. “Australians want stronger protections for AI – we’ve heard that, we’ve taken that on board.”
The report containing the guidelines states that it is essential to enable human control as needed throughout the lifecycle of an AI system.
“Significant human supervision “This will allow them to intervene if necessary and reduce the potential for unintended consequences and harm,” the report says. Companies should be transparent and disclose the role of AI in generating content, it adds.
Regulators around the world have raised concerns about misinformation and fake news contributed by AI tools amid the growing popularity of generative AI systems such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
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As a result, the European Union passed landmark AI laws in May, imposing strict transparency obligations on high-risk AI systems that are broader than a lax, voluntary compliance approach in several countries. “We don’t believe there is a right to self-regulation. I think we’ve crossed that threshold,” Husic told ABC News.
Australia has no specific laws to regulate AI, although it introduced eight voluntary principles for its responsible use in 2019. A government report published this year says current conditions are not adequate enough to address high-risk scenarios.
Husic said only a third of companies using AI are implementing it responsibly across metrics such as safety, fairness, accountability and transparency.
“Artificial intelligence is expected to create up to 200,000 jobs in Australia by 2030… so it is crucial that Australian businesses are equipped to properly develop and use the technology,” he said.
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