Hon. Anthony Albanese MP - Press Conference
10 November 2026
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Press Conferences Parliament of Australia
08:27 - 10:20
Speaker 1
Good afternoon, just. Thanks for joining us. I'm joined by the Deputy PM, Richard Marles, and the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. When it comes to the generational opportunity that artificial intelligence offers Australia, I've been very clear.
Our task is to make sure that we shape AI rather than AI shape us. It will have a drastic impact on the way that work occurs, on the way that we engage with each other, on the way that society functions. You can't turn it off and pretend it hasn't happened or it isn't happening. But what you can do is make sure that you shape it in Australia's interests. And that's why, in July, I announced we would legislate world-leading Australian standards for AI.
We've seen what happened in other parts of the world without guardrails or standards.
Social license has slipped while safety and security have been undermined. Australia is the first mover in this space, and we want to make sure that we continue to work so that we can reap the potential benefits from AI, boosting productivity, bolstering economic resilience, revolutionizing areas such as healthcare. But we need to ensure that we get it right, and social license is absolutely critical. And one of the first things that we're doing here today is announcing our mandatory AI safety and security protections, which will be part of our AI legislation. As part of that, these protections will be regulated by a new targeted AI safety regulator who will be able to enforce significant penalties for AI companies doing the wrong thing.
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