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Australia proposes 10 mandatory AI guardrails and issues a voluntary safety standard

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Source: Minister for Industry and Science: The Albanese Government acts to make AI saferAlso reported by Clayton Utz

Industry Minister Ed Husic released a proposals paper on 5 September 2024 setting out a definition of high-risk AI, 10 mandatory guardrails and three ways to legislate them: adapting existing laws, new framework legislation, or a cross-economy AI Act. The Voluntary AI Safety Standard, published the same day and in effect at once, has 10 guardrails; the first nine match the proposed mandatory ones. Consultation closed on 4 October 2024.

Why it matters

Organisations using AI in Australia got a voluntary standard to follow at once and a draft of the duties they could face in high-risk settings if Parliament legislated.

When
5 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0200
Who
Department of Industry, Science and Resources; Ed Husic

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Minister for Industry and Science and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Minister for Industry and Science

Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0200: “Australia proposes 10 mandatory AI guardrails and issues a voluntary safety standard.” wheresthe.ai, 5 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/au-mandatory-guardrails-proposals-voluntary-standard-2024-09/ (source: Minister for Industry and Science: The Albanese Government acts to make AI safer).

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