Mandatory reporting of serious AI incidents
Serious AI incidents and near misses should be reported to government, so regulators can see what is happening and act.
Where it stands
Nothing here yet.
Risks this could address
Who is calling for this
Global Shield Australia
Guardrails & Gap Analyses: An assessment of Australia's approach to AI regulation (Aug 2026), Recommendation 2 Read it ↗
“The Government should establish a mandatory monitoring and reporting mechanism for serious AI incidents, harms, and near misses, to give agencies the visibility needed to prioritise reforms.”
UNSW AI Institute
Submission 19 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 5 Read it ↗
“Require incident reporting, independent evaluation, red-teaming and supply-chain and foreign-interference assessment for AI used in critical settings.”
Uniting Church in Australia (Synod of Victoria and Tasmania) and U Ethical
Submission 81 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendations Read it ↗
“Require mandatory reporting of significant AI-related harms and voluntary reporting for users negatively affected by AI.”
Sovereign Acumen
Submission 114 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 2 Read it ↗
“Establish mandatory independent evaluation and serious-incident reporting for designated frontier AI systems available in Australia.”
PauseAI Australia
Submission 126 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 5 Read it ↗
“That AI developers and operators of large-scale AI compute in Australia be required to report to a Commonwealth regulator their installed compute, frontier training, and safety incidents”
AGW Legal & Advisory
Submission 201 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), 6.1 Statutory AI Safety Obligations Read it ↗
“Mandatory obligations for developers and deployers of high‑risk AI systems, including: • safety testing • red‑teaming • incident reporting”
Global Shield Australia
Submission 256 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 4 Read it ↗
“The Committee should consider and make recommendations on Australia’s ability to regulate frontier AI developers, how best to address model-level risk, and options for Australia to contribute to international rules and norms on AI.”
Good Ancestors Policy
Submission 257 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 6 Read it ↗
“Create incident reporting obligations that require developers to report critical safety incidents to the Australian Government.”
Gradient Institute
Submission 259 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 2 Read it ↗
“2. Introduce mandatory AI incident reporting, with the AI Safety Institute as the receiving body”
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
Submission 282 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Read it ↗
“A licensing regime would mandate ongoing transparency over AI products and models available in Australia, including regular auditing of their safety, the development of guardrails against high- risk use, effective governance, and mandatory reporting of major incidents.”
Anthropic
Submission 305 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Read it ↗
“We support requirements (explored within the Office of AI’s consultation paper on the proposed Australian Standards for AI13) on developers of the most capable models to publish a safety framework, report on catastrophic-risk evaluations at regular intervals and notify the Government of critical safety incidents”