AI Policy and Governance Newsletter — July 2024
A curated monthly snapshot of AI governance developments - two items are directly relevant to APS practitioners tracking Australian AI policy and legislative progress.
Key points
- Good Ancestors' July 2024 newsletter covers three distinct AI policy developments across Australia and California.
- Two Australian items dominate: a joint federal-state-territory AI assurance framework and new deepfake criminalisation legislation.
- California's proposed $100M training-cost threshold for mandatory AI safety testing is the international item covered.
Implications for Australian agencies
- Monitor Policy teams may want to track progress of the non-consensual deepfake legislation through Parliament and assess any implications for agency AI use policies.
- Consider Agencies implementing AI solutions could consider how the joint federal-state-territory AI assurance framework aligns with or supplements their existing responsible AI obligations under the APS AI Policy.
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"AI Policy and Governance Newsletter — July 2024"
Source: Good Ancestors – AI Policy & Governance Newsletter
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URL: https://www.goodancestors.org.au/newsletter/2024-07
Good Ancestors' July 2024 AI Policy and Governance newsletter covers three developments. First, California's State Assembly is progressing a bill requiring businesses spending over USD $100 million on AI model training to conduct safety testing or face liability. Second, Australian federal, state, and territory governments have released a joint AI assurance framework based on principles including human-centred values, privacy protection, and transparency - though the newsletter notes it may not meaningfully advance beyond 2022 ethical principles. Third, the Australian Government has introduced legislation to criminalise the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexual deepfake images, with the newsletter flagging that the bill targets users rather than developers or platform operators.
Implications for Australian agencies:
- [Monitor] Policy teams may want to track progress of the non-consensual deepfake legislation through Parliament and assess any implications for agency AI use policies.
- [Consider] Agencies implementing AI solutions could consider how the joint federal-state-territory AI assurance framework aligns with or supplements their existing responsible AI obligations under the APS AI Policy.
Retrieved from SIMS, 18 July 2026.