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Australia Voluntary AI Safety Standard

Australia's ten voluntary guardrails for safe and responsible AI, published in 2024 as the precursor to proposed mandatory rules for high-risk AI. The government has since chosen to rely on existing laws, so the standard remains the main national reference.

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  • Ten guardrails: accountability, risk management, data governance, testing, human oversight, transparency to users, contestability, supply-chain transparency, record-keeping and stakeholder engagement - Aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF; intended as the basis for any future mandatory guardrails

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