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Companies that get hacked face stricter laws than firms unleashing rogue AI. We can fix that
Just as car makers have to report and pay to fix faulty airbags, AI companies should be legally responsible for their faulty products.
The Australian government looks likely to introduce stronger legal checks on artificial intelligence (AI) companies to parliament early next year, after a bipartisan parliamentary committee released early recommendations in a letter to the prime minister. Their final report is due by the end of November.
Yet even after those proposed changes , our laws won’t do enough to hold companies accountable for so-called “rogue AI”.
This includes instances such as OpenAI’s AI agents hacking multiple federal and state government websites in Australia this year, which OpenAI only belatedly revealed.
But there are precedents for how to get tougher on companies responsible for rogue AI hacks.
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