Privacy
Personal information should be collected, used, disclosed and retained only with appropriate controls and notices.
Legal and regulatory awareness
AI Legal and Regulatory Awareness
AI use must be managed within existing obligations, including privacy, consumer law, discrimination, workplace safety, cyber security, copyright and employment law.
Important: This page is general educational information only. It is not legal, workplace relations, safety, privacy, cyber security, financial or professional advice.
Awareness areas
Existing obligations still apply when AI is used.
Automated decision-making
Where automated decisions significantly affect people, transparency and review pathways become important.
Discrimination
AI should be assessed for unfair or discriminatory outcomes.
Workplace safety
AI and automation can create new or changed work health and safety risks if oversight is weak.
Cyber security
AI can increase phishing, deepfake, data leakage and access-control risks.
Consumer and service impacts
AI-assisted communication or decisions should not mislead people or create unfair outcomes.
Copyright and IP
Generated content, training data and confidential information can raise intellectual property issues.
Employment and consultation
AI can affect tasks, monitoring, performance and job design, so consultation may be needed.
Record keeping
Important AI-assisted decisions should be documented so they can be reviewed.
Practical governance
Use legal awareness to design better controls.
Workplaces should connect AI governance with privacy, cyber security, procurement, workplace relations, data governance, risk management and incident response.