The Albanese government has been strangely timid on a suite of digital safety issues, avoiding at every stage any serious attempt to make responsible businesses liable for poor safety design.
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Big tech is the undoubted winner after Australia fell into line with its AUKUS partners, embracing a light-touch AI oversight regime and firmly locking the country into the US techno order.
Many forget that AUKUS is both a submarine and a technology co-operation agreement, and all three Anglo countries have resisted mandatory testing, transparency and accountability rules for the revolutionary technology.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ai-plan-leaves-australia-a-digital-backwater-20240116-p5exl6
