12.31pm PM asked why he called conference before journalists could read recommendations By Emily Kaine
The PM has just been asked by Capital Brief’s chief political correspondent Matthew Franklin why he called a press conference before giving journalists the opportunity to read the recommendations he was announcing.
Here’s the exchange between Franklin and Albanese:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference this afternoon. Alex Ellinghausen Franklin: “You’ve invited us here to talk about the report, the rapid response report. You’ve failed to furnish it to us before we’ve been asked to come here and ask you questions about it – something your government does frequently. What is it, that you’re afraid that if we’re better informed by reading stuff, we’ll ask harder questions?”
Albanese: “Not at all because we’re protecting our national interest of our national security, as I foreshadowed … we are releasing the recommendations for you in full. They’ve been adopted about an hour ago on our, through our processes. I’m doing it at the first possible opportunity. I’m doing it as prime minister, and that’s appropriate.”
12.24pm What are the recommendations the PM has just announced? By
While the press gallery is asking about the details of the rapid review into the breach of an Australian government website by OpenAI, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has just published the recommendations here.
It suggests a new law with criminal penalties for a “failure to prevent” offence “which would criminalise instances where the company is responsible for developing an AI model that engages in harmful conduct, and the company fails to take reasonable steps to prevent that harm”.
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