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Submission on the Safe and Responsible AI for Australia: Proposal Paper for Introducing Mandatory Guardrails for AI in high-risk settings

October 9, 2024/

NELA has prepared a submission in response to the Safe and Responsible AI in Australia proposals paper for introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings (‘the Proposal Paper’).

This submission relates to Questions 1, 8 and 13 of the Proposal Paper, and highlights the importance of greater attention of environmental issues associated with AI in both proposed principles and guardrails.

In this submission, NELA’s three key considerations includes:

  • ensuring AI environmental impacts is given prominence and weight by revising ‘principle e’ to remove environment, and creating a new principle that specifically addresses the environmental impact risks of AI development and use;
  • ensuring environmental issues are appropriately factored into the binding norms of a new AI regulatory framework; and
  • supporting a new cross-economy AI Act as the best option for ensuring environmental considerations are given appropriate consideration and weight in AI regulation.

 

Full submission can be found here.

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