Sydney (AFP) - Artificial intelligence companies will have to comply with new "mandatory" safeguards to operate in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday.
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Global concern about the power of advanced AI is growing following a series of hacking incidents involving leading companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Australia will soon establish a new safety regulator, tasked with implementing measures designed to keep the booming industry under control, Albanese said.
"Our task is to make sure that we are the ones who shape the AI, rather than the AI shaping us," he told reporters.
"You can't ignore the issue and pretend it's not happening. But what we can do is make sure we shape it for the benefit of Australia," he justified.
“Australia is a pioneer in this space and we want to ensure we harness the potential benefits of AI,” Albanese said.
"But we have to make sure we do it right, and having the support of society is absolutely essential," he added.
Australia expressed deep displeasure earlier this year after a prototype OpenAI model bypassed security measures during training and hacked a government website.
That AI agent attempted to access a health statistics portal in June, managing to bypass restrictions to infiltrate a section that housed private files.
OpenAI did not alert the Australian government until September, when it sent a message to a generic inbox that is only checked once a day.
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