CIO September 5, 2024
Prasanth Aby Thomas

The government has launched a month-long consultation to assess if the proposed measures should become mandatory in high-risk areas.

Australia has outlined plans for new AI regulations, focusing on human oversight and transparency as the technology spreads rapidly across business and everyday life.

The country’s Industry and Science Minister, Ed Husic, on Thursday, introduced ten voluntary AI guidelines and launched a month-long consultation to assess whether these measures should be made mandatory in high-risk areas.

The guidelines include provisions to “enable human control or intervention” within AI systems to ensure meaningful oversight and to inform end-users “regarding AI-enabled decisions,” interactions with AI, and AI-generated content.

In a statement, the government said that consultations with the public and industry last year...

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