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Where do QLD’s representatives stand on AI safety?

QLD is represented in the Senate by 12 senators.

8 statements from 1 of 42 people who represent QLD, most recently 6 Aug 2025.

Who represents QLD

What QLD’s representatives have said about AI safety

  • “We've got to always find that balance point, but especially when it comes to AI, between overregulating and underregulating [...] You can overdo it and you can underdo it when it comes to regulation of AI”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

    AI governance failure

  • “There's broadly 3 schools of thought on AI and big tech change. There's the let it rip crowd. There's the people who pretend that we can turn back the clock [...] Or there's our approach, which is a sensible middle path”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

  • “The only way to make our people and workers and industries beneficiaries is if we treat AI as an enabler, not an enemy of what we want to see in our economy”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

    AI and unemployment

  • “We can chart a middle course that makes our workers and our people and our industries beneficiaries not victims of technological change”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

    AI and unemployment

  • “I'm optimistic that AI can be a force for good, but I'm also realistic about the risks. It is not beyond us, in my view, to maximise the opportunities of AI while we manage the risks the best that we can”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

  • “Artificial intelligence is a game changer for our economy. It has the potential to support all of our major economic goals, making our economy more productive, stronger, lifting living standards over time”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · Treasury Ministers

    AI governance failure

  • “We have to do more to embrace technology, particularly the AI opportunity. There's a huge agenda there for us”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · SmartCompany

  • “Our focus with AI is also on the huge gains on offer, not just the guardrails”

    Jim Chalmers · Labor · · InvestorDaily

    AI governance failure

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