By Isaac Sharp
Publication Date: 2026-03-23 19:00:00
In Australia, there are no laws or policies specifically designed for AI digital twins – systems that train using an employee’s emails, meetings, documents and chat messages to create an AI human replica that can answer questions. The technology is already in use abroad and is coming here quickly.
A compromised twin trained for defense or critical infrastructure personnel would be a godsend for the intelligence community, but existing laws and policies were not intended for non-human personnel with years of institutional knowledge. Australia needs to close this gap before the technology arrives.
Viven, a Silicon Valley startup, raised US$35 million (A$49 million) in October to build personalized AI twins that represent every employee at a given company. Colleagues could then query that person’s digital twin and receive answers, even if the real person was furloughed or quit. Viven already operates in companies with tens of thousands of employees.
Australia’s appetite for AI is insatiable…
