By Nathan Schmidt
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 00:00:00
Australia’s legal system is “not ready” for artificial intelligence as new generative models pose risks to privacy and political communications, a leading human rights organization has warned.
Amnesty International warned that popular AI systems like ChatGPT are “incompatible with the right to privacy” in a damning global report released on Thursday.
The human rights organization also claimed that AI models pose broader legal concerns, including discrimination against historically marginalized groups and the ability to “manipulate user intentions,” posing a risk to “freedom of thought.”
The report called for urgent intervention, including in Australia, to address “the most harmful practices” by AI companies that were allowed to “bring to market high-risk products at the expense of users and human rights.”
Amnesty International Australia International and crisis director Andrew Witheford said that, lacking a long-awaited human rights law, Australia was left unprotected…
