‘Validated’: Husic says breaches prove need for AI guardrails


Former industry minister Ed Husic says a surge in security incidents driven by rogue AI agents has borne out the case for regulation, renewing his calls for a National AI Act that goes beyond breach reporting.

A week after the government revealed OpenAI breached the Medicare statistics portal and sent Canberra scrambling, Mr Husic told InnovationAus.com he has been proved right on the need for mandatory guardrails.

“Everything that we’re …

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