Australia’s artificial intelligence discourse has been captured by “majoritarian thinking” that accepts a social cost for claims of massive economic value, former privacy watchdog Malcolm Crompton warned on Monday...
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National guidance to help public servants make ethical decisions when collecting, using and sharing public data will be developed by the federal government in a bid to tackle the...
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Australian businesses are leaving most of the cloud services they signed on for with hyperscale providers unused, putting them in weaker renegotiating positions or forcing them to ratchet up...
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More than $10 million has been set aside to introduce a consistent legal framework for automated decision-making across government and to bring back an administrative decisions watchdog abolished by...
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“I advocate that every company form a Responsible AI Office,” Balakrishna D.R. (Bali) said, underscoring its crucial role in steering AI-first strategies safely through the quagmire of data privacy,...
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Over a week in late November, the Australian Information Industry Association led an trade delegation to the United States made up of digital businesses and senior government representatives. The...
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We have largely been taken by surprise by the tremendous advances in capability of the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. Across domains from music and art...
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IBM’s whole of government agreement is approaching $1 billion less than a year after it was announced, with the Tax Office tacking on another $29 million for licences and...
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Record keeping professionals say the over-retention of digital records in the Australian Public Service is ‘frightening’ and have called for urgent legal reforms that would bolster the National Archives...
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Australia’s modern slavery laws present an opportunity to stop artificial intelligence models from spreading misinformation, according to a new report that warns state actors and cyber criminals could “poison”...
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The largest provider of data centre services to the federal government, CDC Data Centres, will accelerate development of data centres to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. The firm...
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The federal government has agreed to most of the recommendations in a landmark review of Australia’s privacy law to bring it into the digital age, including a right to...
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New ministerial powers preventing certain datasets from being stored outside of Australia should be handed to the federal government, according to a local cloud services provider and data centre...
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The decision to remove the ‘Sovereign Certified’ status from the Commonwealth’s Hosting Certification Framework should be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Federal Police to investigate...