Husic says innovation-regulation trade-off ‘just garbage’


Former industry minister Ed Husic has dismissed the idea that Australia must choose between encouraging AI innovation and regulating the highest-risk application of the technology as “just garbage”.

In the latest rebuke of his government’s “hands-off approach” on AI policy, Mr Husic warned that “effective guardrails” are missing from the National AI Plan, as the country increasingly relies on models built overseas with vastly different value sets.

He said that …

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