Australia just outlined more ‘AI safety’ priorities, but is the plan actually coherent?

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government. These include: introducing a digital duty of care to address risks from AI and digital services consulting on a second round of privacy law reforms AI safety in the workplace consumer risks such as surveillance pricing and AI agent-based commerce a framework to regulate government use of automated…