Australia’s legal response to the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) currently rests on three key elements: ‘soft law’ codes of AI ethics, data privacy legislation (currently undergoing reform including to promote greater data protection, potentially modelled on the GDPR), and reliance on general ‘principles-based’ legislation, with its built in flexibility for adapting to new scenarios. This presentation considers this approach. It suggests a complementary and important role for the kinds of measures contemplated by the EU’s draft AI Act, which focus on risk and provide ‘ex ante’ processes for promoting fair, safe/reliable, and accountable AI … (more, registration)
First posted 2021-10-30 15:00:09
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