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Petitions: Artificial Intelligence (EN9976)

Parliament of Australia

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Date Published
16 Aug 2026
Priority Score
3
Australian
Yes
Created
16 Sept 2026, 05:22 am

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This formal petition to the Australian House of Representatives advocates for a new legislative framework to regulate AI safety, transparency, and accountability. It emphasizes the need for measuring and mitigating safety concerns, maintaining human control over automated systems, and protecting future generations from societal harms. While the petition touches on broad ethical risks like discrimination and privacy, it explicitly calls for a dedicated regulator to manage systemic risks and prevent misuse of synthetic content, representing a grassroots push for national AI governance in Australia.

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Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence technologies are being used in recruitment, public surveillance, law enforcement, healthcare, government decision-making. Current regulatory frameworks in Australia are insufficiently equipped to address the rapid development and adoption of AI technologies. These technologies can impact Australians in areas such as: Discrimination in recruitment, healthcare and criminal justice due to the absence of regulation and transparency of AI usage in these areas. Intellectual property theft in the absence of Copyright penalties applying to Artificial Intelligence data training. Privacy and surveillance issues of personal data being publicised, misused and stored without consent. Misuse of Artificial Intelligence technology to create synthetic content intended to cause harm. We therefore ask the House to establish official Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Legislation. The regulator should be responsible for, but not limited to: 1. Measuring and mitigating safety concerns and potential risks of AI systems 2. Ensuring transparency and accountability for the use of AI technologies in automated decision making in areas such as recruitment, policing, health services and government services. 3. Maintaining present and future public interest and human control in the development and adoption of AI technologies. 4. Research and support towards ethical AI innovations which prioritise public interest and future generations in education, employment, privacy and societal wellbeing. 5. Amendment of Copyright Act 1968 and Privacy Act 1988 to incorporate responsible AI technology in IP theft and mishandling of private data. 6. Enforcement of penalties for harmful usage of AI technologies which result in personal damages or injustice to society. from 51 citizens (Petition No. EN9976)