Salesforce wants the Australian government to appoint an AI safety officer
The cloud software giant's principal AI ethicist says the Albanese government should follow Joe Biden's lead and introduce an AI safety officer into its ranks, as Canberra gears up to regulate the rapidly growing technology.
Cloud-based software company Salesforce wants the Australian government to consider introducing an AI safety officer to oversee interactions between different regulatory responses to artificial intelligence, from privacy-law to misinformation and copyright.
Salesforce’s principal architect of responsible AI and Tech, Kathy Baxter, is in Australia to talk about responsible AI use just days after the government closed its consultation on its discussion paper which included 10 mandatory guardrails for AI and a definition for “high risk” AI.
It also suggests three potential regulatory options: an AI Act, guardrails within existing legislation, and adapting existing regulatory frameworks to the arrival of AI.
It’s the framework approach that Salesforce wants. Baxter told Capital Brief there’s a benefit to “finding as many places as possible to be able to say, ‘here are the laws that are already on the books. How can we apply them to this technology without having to create new regulations?’”
