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Is Australia's light-touch approach to regulating AI innovative or insufficient?

By Saloni Sinha ( December 29, 2025, 00:03 GMT | Comment) -- Australia’s artificial intelligence strategy is all about building first and regulating later. Its National AI Plan positions Australia as a destination for data centers and AI investment, while leaving hard questions about privacy, copyright and accountability to existing laws and future reviews. Whether the government’s light-touch approach proves forward-thinking or merely postpones difficult regulatory choices remains to be seen.A year after promising a roadmap for artificial intelligence, the Australian government delivered its National AI Plan in early December 2025, offering few regulatory guardrails and instead branding it an “opportunity-first” strategy centred on productivity, growth and data centers....

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