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We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin

If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by an “AI agent” contrasts sharply with other recent cases such as the Telstra and Optus outages that left many Australians unable to reach Triple Zero . In those cases, no one blamed the…

We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin

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