Australia releases a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and consults on mandatory guardrails
Concerns Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard
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In brief
Australia releases a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and consults on mandatory guardrails. Recorded for Australia on 5 September 2024. It concerns the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard. The Department of Industry, Science and Resources published ten voluntary guardrails and a proposals paper on mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI, with consultation to 4 October 2024.
- Date
- 5 September 2024
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Instrument
- Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard
- Impact
- High
- Status afterwards
- Voluntary standard
- Official source
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources
What changed?
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources published ten voluntary guardrails and a proposals paper on mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI, with consultation to 4 October 2024.
What does it mean in practice?
Australian organisations gained a concrete voluntary baseline aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.
Official source
Voluntary AI Safety StandardDepartment of Industry, Science and Resources · 5 Sep 2024
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Australia releases a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and consults on mandatory guardrails” [AIPT-CHG-0037, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0037 (accessed 12 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Permanent id AIPT-CHG-0037: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.
Cite the official text alongside it: Voluntary AI Safety Standard, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard.
BibTeX
@misc{aipolicytracker2026_australiareleasesavolunt,
author = {{AIPolicyTracker}},
title = {{Australia releases a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and consults on mandatory guardrails}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-09-05-australia-voluntary-standard-and-guardrails}},
url = {https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-09-05-australia-voluntary-standard-and-guardrails},
urldate = {2026-11-12},
note = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 12 November 2026}
}
Related changes
Preceding consultation on mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI opened (government later chose not to proceed with them)
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