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Kate Chaney

Députée indépendante au Parlement australien pour Curtin et membre non inscrite de sa commission mixte restreinte sur l’intelligence artificielle, qui avertit que la prochaine génération de modèles devrait apporter un bond des capacités biologiques également très inquiétant pour les armes biologiques, que l’Australie devrait exiger des tests de sécurité pour l’IA comme elle le fait pour un casque de vélo, et que 40 % du travail dans 30 % des emplois pourrait devenir superflu d’ici dix ans.

Fonctions

  1. 21 mai 2022 – aujourd’huiMember of the Australian Parliament for Curtin, Parliament of AustraliaIndependent; elected at the 2022 federal election, succeeding Celia Hammond.Source →
  2. oct. 2026 – aujourd’huiCrossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of AustraliaThe source calls her "a crossbench representative on a joint-select committee probing the emerging technology" and does not give the committee's formal name or attest when she joined it, so the date given is the earliest a source attests the role.Source →

Au registre

  1. 14 oct. 2026 · Entretien · Yahoo News

    Or it may be that 40% of the work in 30% of our jobs becomes redundant in the next 10 years. That has big implications for tax take, welfare and societal purpose, societal order and human meaning and purpose.

    Crossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of Australia à l’époque

    The upper branch of two scenarios she sets against each other, arguing for scenario planning inside government; the lower is "a little bit of change in how jobs are described, but no big significant impacts".

    ‘I don't want to freak people out’ →

  2. 14 oct. 2026 · Entretien · Yahoo News

    At the very least, I think that until we've worked out who's liable for these issues, we should be very careful about how these agentic AI are being deployed.

    Crossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of Australia à l’époque

    On agentic systems and the unsettled question of liability, in the same interview.

    ‘I don't want to freak people out’ →

  3. 14 oct. 2026 · Entretien · Yahoo News

    …we should be requiring that you can only import synthetic DNA from labs that do safety testing first, so that we are not going to be the place where a new bioweapon is created.

    Crossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of Australia à l’époque

    The second half of a sentence that opens "There are limited labs that can create nucleic acid materials — but let's say synthetic DNA — and"; shortened from the front with an ellipsis.

    ‘I don't want to freak people out’ →

  4. 14 oct. 2026 · Entretien · Yahoo News

    You can't sell a bike helmet in Australia without showing that you've tested it first. This is much more dangerous than a dodgy bike helmet.

    Crossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of Australia à l’époque

    On pre-deployment testing requirements, in the same interview.

    ‘I don't want to freak people out’ →

  5. 14 oct. 2026 · Entretien · Yahoo News

    With the latest round of models that we haven't seen yet, it's expected that there is going to be a big uplift in biological capability. That's great for scientific research — it's also really scary for bioweapons. I don't want to freak people out, but we do need to make sure that we are realistic about what's coming.

    Crossbench representative on a joint select committee on artificial intelligence, Parliament of Australia à l’époque

    Her answer when asked whether OpenAI's evidence to her committee on bioweapons had reassured her; the headline is drawn from its last sentence. A sit-down interview with Finn McHugh in her parliament office. The fetched page is a syndication: it names politico.com/news/2026/10/14/i-dont-want-to-freak-people-out-but-we-need-be-realistic-01117691 as its canonical, and that page has not been read.

    ‘I don't want to freak people out’ →