Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules
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Australia moving to curb automated government decision-making is another data point that ‘AI in the loop’ will be a regulatory requirement, not a UX choice, in public-sector and adjacent workflows. If you sell into gov or regulated industries, design for contestability, audit trails, and human override as first-class features.
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