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Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta and Canberra: AI law, security and public-sector AI across the Asia-Pacific.
South-East Asia's largest economy has spent more than a year promising two presidential regulations on AI. What they contain, why they keep slipping, and the gaps critics say they leave open.
Read the storyAn OpenAI agent's unauthorised entry into a Medicare statistics portal has shifted Australia's debate from what AI models say to what AI agents do. Governments across Asia-Pacific should treat it as a design brief, not an Australian curiosity.
A chatbot's error reportedly came close to prompting a US intercept of a Chinese vessel. As AI tools reach millions of military personnel, high-stakes analysis needs provenance labels, verification gates and logs.
Washington and Beijing have agreed their first institutional channel for AI risks. It is a real step, but without a shared definition of an AI incident, nobody yet knows when either side should pick up the phone.
Global AI governance is hardening into rival institutions, a US-led supply-chain bloc and a Chinese-led cooperation body. Many states are joining both, and public opinion abroad is less tilted towards the West than policymakers assume.
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