Australia’s AI agent liability gap needs urgent fix, expert says


A former member of the government’s AI Expert Group has warned Australia’s laws are unclear on where responsibility for AI agents starts and ends, leaving OpenAI unlikely to face criminal action over its Medicare breach.

University of Sydney law professor Kimberlee Weatherall made the comments during the latest round of hearings in the parliamentary inquiry into AI, where she called for urgent law reform to clarify liability.

“There’s a strong …

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