Ed Santo

So really for safety, but also to make sure that you're doing the job that you're paid for.

But there's also unreasonable forms of surveillance, which actually cause harm.

And at the moment, we have a problem, which is the technology is galloping ahead, but the law hasn't kept up.

Yeah.

I mean, I had this terrible realisation when I was Human Rights Commissioner a few years ago, and that was that we are good at dreaming up laws, but we're not so great at enforcing them.

And that really brings me back to the start.

What government needs to do is give real clarity about how those often quite old laws apply in the era of AI.

So it's really an education issue.

But then they need to rigorously enforce the law when people are breaking the law using AI.

And so I think what the single biggest thing that the government could do is kind of support those principal regulators to do those two functions.

So educate, but also enforce.

When you start to do that, then when there's a company that may be out there trying to mislead regulators,

or deceive people, as we saw with Travago a few years ago, then they'll know that there are consequences attached to doing the wrong thing.