Australia considers world-first criminal charges for AI firms failing to prevent harm
nath1234 · reddit · 2026-11-11
Australia's federal government will investigate creating a new criminal offence—reportedly a world first—for AI companies that fail to prevent harmful conduct by their models. The move follows a review of September's OpenAI hack of the Medicare statistics portal. The government is expected to release the rest of its AI standards by the end of the year.
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