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Australian Curiosity · Work and technology

What Australia's new workplace AI safety guidance means

The guidance does not ban workplace AI. It explains how existing health and safety duties apply to algorithms, automation, monitoring and software changes.

23 July 2026 · 11 min readRead story →

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