As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever

Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absence of a human rights act in Australia will put us all at ever greater risk.

Human rights, which the Australian parliament has never managed to properly legislate despite overwhelming public support, risks becoming a dimly remembered artefact of another age at precisely the moment we need it most.

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