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Australian Senate committee calls for an economy-wide law on high-risk AI

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Source: Parliament of Australia: Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence, final reportAlso reported by Information Age (ACS)

The Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence, chaired by Labor Senator Tony Sheldon, tabled its final report in November 2024 with 13 recommendations. It asks for whole-of-economy legislation on high-risk AI uses, with general-purpose models such as large language models on the high-risk list, and for AI that affects workers’ rights to count as high-risk. It also calls for transparency and licensing for copyrighted training data and fair payment to creators.

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Model developers and employers in Australia saw a parliamentary committee back binding high-risk rules covering general-purpose models and workplace AI.

When
26 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0202
Who
Parliament of Australia; Tony Sheldon

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Parliament of Australia and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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

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WTA-N-2024-0202: “Australian Senate committee calls for an economy-wide law on high-risk AI.” wheresthe.ai, 26 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/au-senate-adopting-ai-committee-report-2024-11/ (source: Parliament of Australia: Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence, final report).

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