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Under the new laws, platforms must take "reasonable steps" to prevent Australian children from creating accounts on their sites, and deactivate existing ones.

Similar to the way that HR deactivates an employee's logins when they leave, there needs to be a process for shutting down AI agents that have finished their work, he says.

"It's as simple as that. Deaths will keep occurring as long as you have these window restrictors in place that can be deactivated, because it's just too easy."

They will need to deactivate existing accounts and prohibit any new accounts, as well as stopping any work arounds and correcting errors.

According to a civil complaint filed by the company, he replied saying he wanted to “maintain a cooperative spirit” and had already “voluntarily deactivated all the software… as a gesture of goodwill.”