The Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources has published a Discussion Paper on governance mechanisms to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is developed and used safely and responsibly in Australia.

The paper seeks to identify potential gaps in the existing domestic governance landscape and any possible additional AI governance mechanisms to support the development and adoption of AI.

The paper defines AI as “an engineered system that generates predictive outputs such as content, forecasts, recommendations or decisions for a given set of human-defined objectives or parameters without explicit programming. AI systems are designed to operate with varying levels of automation. “

Regulation includes both voluntary mechanisms to encourage a particular set of behaviours and actions, such as principles, guidelines and voluntary standards and regulatory mechanisms, which impose formal legal obligations.

The paper provides an overview of existing domestic governance and Australia’s broader regulatory framework and an overview of recent (and ongoing) international developments.

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