Australia will introduce mandatory safeguards for artificial intelligence companies, including compulsory reporting of security breaches and independent oversight of AI systems, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday.

The decision comes after an incident in which an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to a government medical statistics portal while researching public medical spending.

What Albanese said

Albanese said his center-left Labor government had accepted all the review's recommendations, which include requiring AI companies to report misaligned behavior and cyber incidents.…