Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The kind of conduct that you refer to—misinformation and disinformation spread often by extremist elements in Australia but sometimes originating from overseas and sometimes supercharged by the kinds of technologies that you refer to—is something, of course, that we all should fight against and that we all should be determined to oppose, because it's corrosive, in democratic terms, when people are misrepresented.

On the approach that the government has taken in relation to artificial intelligence, there are some elements of that question, of course, that relate to social media and to misinformation and disinformation. But, in relation to the artificial intelligence aspect, the approach the government is taking was set out in the national artificial intelligence plan, which I released some months ago. The first two components of that are about capturing the economic advantage here for strategic reasons as much as economic reasons and about making sure we spread the benefits through the community. The third component, on establishing the artificial intelligence safety institute, is the approach that this government is taking to regulation in relation to artificial intelligence.