Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic has highlighted the misuse of citizens’ biometric details, the potential for social scoring systems to be developed and sophisticated criminal use as some of his main concerns, regarding the advancing capability of artificial intelligence, as he attempts to form Australia’s regulatory settings.

Husic released the government’s response to a lengthy public consultation on the safe and responsible development of AI in January, and announced the members of a new AI expert group to advise on issues including guardrails for AI in high-risk settings (like law enforcement, healthcare and recruitment) this month.