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Voluntary AI Safety Standard

Record AUS-03

Issued by
Department of Industry, Science and Resources – National Artificial Intelligence Centre
Jurisdiction
Australia
Level · region
National · Oceania
Published / adopted
2024-09-05
Last updated
2025-10-21
Language
English

Summary

Set 10 voluntary guardrails for organisations across the AI supply chain: an accountability process, risk management, data governance and protection of AI systems, testing and monitoring, meaningful human oversight, informing end-users about AI use and AI-generated content, processes to challenge AI outcomes, transparency across the supply chain, record-keeping, and stakeholder engagement focused on safety and fairness. It described what developers and deployers should do to use AI safely and used language aligned with international standards.

Safety topics

accountability & liabilityevaluation & testinghuman oversighttransparency & labelling

Status notes

Published by the National Artificial Intelligence Centre on 5 September 2024 as the first version of Australia's AI safety standard. On 21 October 2025 the Centre published the Guidance for AI Adoption, which the DISR page describes as updated and simplified guidance for industry that evolves the standard. The Guidance calls itself the first update of the standard: it condensed the 10 guardrails into 6 essential practices, extended the guidance to AI developers as well as deployers, and integrated all of the standard's practices, with a crosswalk from each guardrail to the new practices.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 21:35:45 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/AUS-03/2026-10-11/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:59:14 UTC
SHA-256 3c901a0169c93457d7006a961691c8fb2a776c11e3fd4d9cd5f10bbb256dcf04

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: re-read the DISR publication page stored on 11 Oct 2026 (the archiver found it unchanged on 17 Oct 2026): title, publisher (National Artificial Intelligence Centre), 'Date published: 5 September 2024', 'Date updated: 2 December 2025', the 10 voluntary guardrails and the notice that the Guidance for AI Adoption, published on 21 October 2025, evolves the standard. Stored in this run from DISR and the National AI Centre: the standard's '10 guardrails' page (the guardrails in the summary) and the Guidance for AI Adoption implementation guidance PDF (October 2025), which calls itself the first update of the VAISS and says all VAISS practices are integrated into it. The earlier notes' statement that the standard was published together with the guardrails proposals paper is not in this record's stored files and was removed.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 8 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-17notes: Published on 5 Sep 2024 together with the proposals paper on mandatory guardrail → Published by the National Artificial Intelligence Centre on 5 September 2024 as — rewritten from the stored DISR page and the Guidance PDF: the replacement in the words of both sources; the claims that the standard was published with the proposals paper and that the page marks it 'superseded' are not in the stored files2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17summary: Set 10 voluntary guardrails for organisations across the AI supply chain, coveri → Set 10 voluntary guardrails for organisations across the AI supply chain: an acc — rewritten from the stored '10 guardrails' page: all 10 guardrails named, including stakeholder engagement (guardrail 10), which the earlier summary left out2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Guidance for AI Adoption (AI6) Australia · Published (non-binding, current)

Australia mandatory AI guardrails proposal Australia · Revoked / withdrawn

Citation

Department of Industry, Science and Resources – National Artificial Intelligence Centre. Voluntary AI Safety Standard. 2024-09-05. https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard. Status: Superseded; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/AUS-03/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 13:59:14 UTC, SHA-256 3c901a0169c93457d7006a961691c8fb2a776c11e3fd4d9cd5f10bbb256dcf04. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record AUS-03.

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