Author: Justin Hendry

Australia is chasing the wrong kind of AI

Posted on   |  by Professor Cori Stewart
Today, in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made an important shift in Australia’s AI debate. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as simply another technology policy, he placed it at...

New laws to set standards for data centre boom: PM

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Data centre operators will be forced to underwrite new power supply, slash their water use and face a new “common sense” test on whether facilities can be built under...

PM sets up Office of AI to coordinate national standards

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia will develop a set of national AI standards through a centralised office within the Prime Minister’s department in a bid by the Albanese government to better co-ordinate its...

Albanese’s AI plan is a policy reset, not a fix

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
All eyes will be on Anthony Albanese on Wednesday as he sets out his government’s latest thinking on how to capture the economic upsides of artificial intelligence without hollowing...

Children’s social media curbs planned across EU

Posted on   |  by Foo Yun Chee and Bart H. Meijer
The European Union will move to limit young children’s access to social media across the 27-member bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, in what...

$500k in vendor gift offers in one year exposed by DTA

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Some of the federal government’s largest technology suppliers offered public officials almost $500,000 in gifts and hospitality in a single year, a review triggered by a Salesforce scandal has...

AI Safety Institute teams with ASD to test unreleased models

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s new AI Safety Institute is working with the nation’s cybersecurity agency to test highly advanced artificial intelligence models not yet publicly available, its newly appointed head has revealed....