{"slug": "australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework", "title": "Australia to become the first country to introduce landmark AI framework", "summary": "Australia will become the first country to introduce a national AI framework, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday. The Office of Artificial Intelligence will coordinate standards on energy, copyright, productivity, education, and labour rights, aiming to attract investment from tech giants like Anthropic while addressing risks to children and national security.", "body_md": "## IN BRIEF\n\n- Tech giants previously claimed to decide investment amount based on Australia's copyright settings.\n- Albanese's speech won't detail changes to copyright laws.\n\n**Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will launch the Office of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to set out a national framework for the evolving technology on Wednesday.**\n\nThe Office, which will be under the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, will coordinate the design of new Australian Standards about [AI](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/tag/subject/artificial-intelligence) and its impacts on issues such as energy, copyright, productivity, education and labour rights.\n\n\"Australia will be the first country in the world to bring these issues into a single, national framework,\" Albanese says.\n\nThe announcement comes as several tech giants, including Anthropic, which creates the AI chatbot Claude, seek investment in AI data centres in Australia — amid concerns about their impact on Australian intellectual property.\n\nAlbanese will also respond to Anthropic's earlier claims that its investment in AI development and infrastructure will depend on copyright policy certainty, arguing that the right guardrails will attract business.\n\n## News that makes sense\n\nYour trusted source for staying up-to-date with the world around you. Get free daily news updates and analysis, straight to your inbox.\n\n\"And getting this right will enhance our appeal to international investors, by delivering greater clarity and speed for approvals, and a streamlined process for verifying compliance,\" he says.\n\n## Digital duty of care on the way\n\nSet to speak in Sydney, Albanese will confirm the national framework adds to the government's ongoing design of digital duty of care and mitigation of risks posed by AI on children and national security.\n\n\"We know that both extremists and state actors already use AI to create propaganda aimed at young people - and to spread disinformation that targets democracies,\" he says.\n\nLabor MP Ed Husic, a former industry minister, said giving big tech social licence was a path \"sadly doomed to failure\".\n\n\"We tried self-regulation for ... a couple of decades, found out that it didn't work, and it won't work on a financial basis for these firms,\" he told Sky News on Tuesday.\n\n\"None of these firms will go one out from the other to bring in guardrails to limit the risks.\"\n\n*— With additional reporting by the Australian Associated Press.*\n\n*For the latest from SBS News, **download our app** and **subscribe to our newsletter**.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework", "canonical_source": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australia-set-to-become-first-country-to-introduce-national-ai-framework/0w2q0yakr", "published_at": "2026-07-14 22:10:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-14 22:17:48.481739+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Anthony Albanese", "Office of Artificial Intelligence", "Anthropic", "Ed Husic", "Australian Associated Press", "SBS News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/australia-to-become-the-first-country-to-introduce-landmark-ai-framework.jsonld"}}