Tag: AI Safety

AI firms to carry safety burden under new laws, Charlton says

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s AI standards will hold companies responsible for developing their products and services safely, rather than imposing “prescriptive rules”, assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton says. Speaking at a Trust...

Leigh doubles his AI doom odds to one in 10

Posted on   |  by Lanie Tindale
Assistant treasury minister Andrew Leigh now puts the odds that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity at one in 10, double his earlier estimate, and wants Australia “moving on...

Australia joins 22-nation push for global AI rules

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia has joined 21 other countries in signing a declaration calling for the creation of a UN-style international organisation to establish common standards for frontier artificial intelligence. Prime Minister...

Canberra reveals early thinking on how to capture AI gains

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A public-interest research payment and a compute reservation scheme are among the options being considered by the federal government to capture the economic gains from frontier AI training in...

US, China prepare for mid-September AI safety talks

Posted on   |  by Laurie Chen
The US and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed on the discussions said as rapidly advancing frontier...

OpenAI’s rogue AI scare fuels push for ‘kill switch’

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official...

Head of US AI safety agency resigns

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
US Center for AI Standards and Innovation director Chris Fall has resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of...

AI safety priorities bring govt policy back to the future

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Most of the Albanese government’s AI safety priorities look like simple reheats work started years earlier, leaving Sunday’s announcement – via a six-minister press release – as a veneer...