Australia plans to create an artificial intelligence safety regulator in response to a breach of an Australian health department website by a rogue OpenAI agent in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

The regulator would enforce world-leading legislated AI standards that would apply to all frontier AI companies that want to operate in Australia, Albanese said. Financial penalties would apply, although the government has yet to detail those penalties.

“When it comes to the generational opportunity that artificial intelligence offers Australia, I’ve been very clear: our task is to make sure we shape AI rather than AI shape us,” Albanese told reporters.…