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Australia is establishing a new AI safety regulator to enforce six mandatory safety guardrails for frontier AI companies, following an incident where an AI agent accessed non-public Medicare data. The regulator will have the power to impose significant penalties. The guardrails include implementing security controls, identifying and managing serious risks, allowing independent evaluation of models, rapidly notifying the government of serious incidents, publishing safety and security frameworks, and responding to updated standards and rules. The government is also pursuing an extensive agenda of technology law and policy reform, including a new prohibition on unfair trading practices focused on online markets, a digital duty of care bill, a significant draft privacy law reform bill, and an inquiry into Australia's sovereign AI capability.
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