Author: Joseph Brookes

New deepfake bill to protect individuals’ faces, voices

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A private member’s bill introduced to Parliament on Monday would outlaw non-consensual deepfake video and audio that depicts a person’s face or voice, while creating new legal pathways for...

‘Aren’t you ashamed?’: Govt lashed on CSIRO cuts

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Science minister Tim Ayres has defended the CSIRO’s move to cut up to 350 research jobs, telling Parliament it was a “necessary and important” change to the national science...

Sydney MedTech raises $9.3m for ankle patch Asia push

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Australis Scientific, a Sydney MedTech making wearable patches, has raised almost $10 million to accelerate trials and regulatory approval bids for devices that could help hundreds of millions of...

Ed Santow’s decade of wrestling with AI ethics

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Advancing the ethics of artificial intelligence is still difficult for Ed Santow. Even as a former Human Rights Commissioner and co-founder of a technology ethics institute, these conversations are...

Far Horizons: European research deal still a long way off

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As the EU’s trade chief touched down in Melbourne this week for official talks, parts of research sector were abuzz that Australia’s associate membership to the world’s largest research...

Fix R&D fall and tax miners, IMF tells Chalmers

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been urged by the International Monetary Fund to focus on lifting research and development expenditure and leverage technologies like artificial intelligence to drive innovation and...

US suppliers swing at Australia’s data sovereignty rules

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US cloud, cyber and software firms have called on policymakers to unwind Australia’s data localisation laws and reconsider “sovereignty” goals, claiming the geo-bounding actually increases cybersecurity risks. AWS, Google...

Parliament, scientists demand CSIRO cuts explanation

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Science minister Tim Ayres and the CSIRO will be asked to explain hundreds of redundancies at the science agency when Parliament returns next week, as the research sector rallies...