In the context of an ever-increasing global Alarm that thing artificial intelligence (AI) poised to cause irreparable harm to human society in the near future, the Australian government led by Liberal leader Anthony Albanese has launched a policy of its own. review of this rapidly evolving technology.
Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic has published two papers kicking off an eight-week consultation process seeking input from a wide range of stakeholders on the new framework.
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One is a ‘rapid response’ report commissioned by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) that explores opportunities and risks created by AI.
This analysis has come in handy because of the speed at which existing tech companies in Australia and globally are turning to AI and the speed at which AI is penetrating almost every industry.
It’s a transition that has caused growing concern about AI’s inroads or trends towards Prejudice as well as concerns about honesty and ‘hallucination’.
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For example, Australia’s leading medical association has call for regulations that will oversee AI in healthcare — an area vulnerable to race or age-related bias, with potentially dire consequences.
The article looks at many of the same disruptive situations that AI can cause, including Misinformation is rampant and the subsequent polarization of the population, along with rampant job transfer and increasing inequality.
The next stage is an advisory paper looking at what other countries around the world are doing to address AI regulations.
Towards a framework
The Australian Government is scrutinizing an almost identical assessment that UK The Competition and Markets Authority antitrust agency has announced that it has launched, as well as an AI-specific Act, that the European Union is considering.
The government will certainly also look into the recent actions of WE government, has made similar public assessments of all main AI generation systemsincluding the hacker community, data scientists, independent community partners, and AI experts.
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“Given the developments over the past six months, specifically the past six months, we want to ensure that our regulatory and legal framework is fit for purpose, and that is why we are calling for people, experts or communities, participate in this process, the discussion, with the articles we have published, to let us know what their expectations are and what they would like to see,” speak Husic.
“We need the right framework, that people believe it’s working for the benefit or for the benefit of the community — that’s really important,” he added.
The Australian government consultation document emphasizes that AI must still operate under the auspices of existing rules in the country, as they are currently in the UK or Europe, including rules for industry-specific (such as health care and energy) or those rules. common to all industries (privacy, security and consumer protection measures).
The deliberation will involve considering whether to simply strengthen each area appropriately. Introduce specific AI lawor both.
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Husic mentioned that if there are “high-risk” areas that emerge from this process — he showed an example of hypothetical facial recognition abuse — then his government He will actively handle it. address these concerns seriously in an emerging framework.
“We want people to trust that technology is working for us, not the other way around,” Husic added. “Governments have had a clear role to play in recognizing the risk and responding to it, putting in place containment measures.”
