Australia to establish government AI office to coordinate regulation

SYDNEY, July 14 : Australia will create an office at the heart of government to manage the development of AI standards, seeking to balance the need to attract investment with effective regulation of the disruptive technology.The "Office of AI" will be established within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and ensure a whole-of-government approach across different ministries.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to announce the initiative in a major address on Wednesday in Sydney."Up until now, our response has been issue-by-issue, sector by sector," Albanese is expected to say. "But just as government developed co-ordinated approaches for other significant technologies: from civil aviation in the 1920s to genetics in the 1990s, we must do this with AI as well."The approa