{"id":851678,"date":"2026-08-11T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851678\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:50:13","slug":"exclusive-albanese-lays-out-ai-ambition-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851678\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Albanese lays out AI ambition \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese says his move to legislate AI regulatory standards could become a global model and that he will discuss his approach in detail with world leaders next month in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said AI was too important to be addressed piecemeal and that providing leadership now, rather than waiting for problems to emerge, was critical.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came during an exclusive interview with Capital Brief late Monday at the prime minister\u2019s official residence in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese, who does not personally use AI, delivered a major speech at the University of Sydney last month in which he said he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalbrief.com\/newsletter\/albanese-intelligence-c0173bb7-9be1-4ec0-af83-5b693be5a3bf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take control<\/a> of his government\u2019s approach to the emerging technology by centralising policy in a new Office of AI within his department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese says his move to legislate AI regulatory standards could become a global model and that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,36974,422224,105],"class_list":["post-851678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-politics","tag-political-capital","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}