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Speaker 1: Donald de Mayo's our Australia correspondent Don a good morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, is elbow pecking a fight with Trump over

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Speaker 1: social media?

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Speaker 2: Kind of but not really.

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Speaker 1: No, it's a case of what am I making this

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Speaker 1: story sound more interesting than it is.

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Speaker 2: It's a case of what happens next, isn't it really?

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Speaker 2: There's all questions being asked in the aftermath of that

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Speaker 2: election win. So Australia is I suppose reassuring the federal government,

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Speaker 2: I should say, is trying to reassure the Australian public

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Speaker 2: that it will still pursue AI regulation, social media regulation,

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Speaker 2: despite as it says, that Trump administration opposing it. It's

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Speaker 2: going to push through with these regulations in these areas.

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Speaker 2: And we heard from the Industry Minister, Ed Husseick. Now

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Speaker 2: the minister says that he needs to reassure Australians that

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Speaker 2: he and his government will pursue what it calls the

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Speaker 2: national priorities. And we know that Trump is promising to

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Speaker 2: roll back AI regulation while Australia is saying we are

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Speaker 2: going to devel The federal government says what they've described

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Speaker 2: as guard rails for high risk uses of AI. For instance,

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Speaker 2: there's going to be some new laws and also they're

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Speaker 2: looking at their social media policies as well, and the

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Speaker 2: Minister says the public expects action in these fields. He says,

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Speaker 2: where possible, Australia will work with other countries, but if

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Speaker 2: we need to, it will be localized and that will

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Speaker 2: be pursued. And to quote the Minister, we need to

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Speaker 2: take these steps necessary so that people can have the

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Speaker 2: confidence to actually use AI into the future. So it

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Speaker 2: was a very interesting comments to be made.

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Speaker 1: What type of guardrails are they talking about?

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Speaker 2: How do I was afraid you'd ask that things like

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Speaker 2: being able to have human intervention and oversight. For instance,

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Speaker 2: when we are using AR you want, of course.

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Speaker 1: You want a human Yes, if it starts you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the computer starts fizzing, blowing

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Speaker 1: up or shooting people. You want a human to be

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Speaker 1: able to press the button and turn it off, not.

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Speaker 2: To sensationalize in any way, shape.

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Speaker 1: Or for money. Australia's first Anti Slavery Commission has been appointed.

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Speaker 1: What is this?

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Speaker 2: This is a very serious matter. Of course, there's an

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Speaker 2: estimated forty one thousand people living in modern slavery in Australia,

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Speaker 2: and so we have heard from the government and they've

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Speaker 2: appointed the former Labor Senator Chris Evans, and he's going

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Speaker 2: to address these exploitative practices. We're talking about deceptive recruiting,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about debt bondage, we are talking about forced marriages,

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Speaker 2: human trafficking and forced labor. It's a five year term

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Speaker 2: for the former Immigration and Workplace Relations Minister. And we

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Speaker 2: also heard from the Attorney General who said that of

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Speaker 2: course modern slavery deprives the victim of the dignity, fundamental

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Speaker 2: rights and freedom.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Donna, thank you very much for that. Donald,

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Speaker 1: our Australia correspondent.

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