Anyone who has worked in Australian research and innovation policy for more than a decade will recognise the pattern. The Chief Scientist’s The Chance to Change report (2000), the...
Policy
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As OpenAI executives step up their public calls for federal AI safety rules, a political group the company’s president helped fund is spending millions to elect members of Congress who...
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A five per cent levy on the revenues of data centres operating in Australia would help the public capture a share of the “gold rush” in artificial intelligence, independent...
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The conservative think tank Centre for Independent Studies seemed an unusual place for Andrew Hastie to present a vision for interventionist industrial policy, but we are living in strange...
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Some of Australia’s most severe automated welfare compliance penalties will resume next week, more than two years after they began being suspended because of an error riddled IT system...
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The Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD) report, Ambitious Australia, proposed six National Innovation Pillars, each anchored in a long-term national goal. A new National Innovation Council (NIC)...
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The music industry is in the fight of its life, and if government changes copyright rules to enable AI companies to train their models in Australia, the creative sector’s...
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When does the government’s input into a parliamentary inquiry cross the line to be more accurately characterised as interference? Well, the lines are blurred, but it probably occurs at...
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The Productivity Commission has stuck to its view that the government should wait three years before considering any copyright carve-outs to allow AI models to be trained in Australia....
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Generational procurement reforms promised by NSW Labor in 2023 were delivered on Tuesday when Parliament passed legislation to channel more government spending to local firms and workers. It will...
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US outposts in Australia to train frontier artificial intelligence models would build up local capability and lift productivity, Industry minister Tim Ayres said Tuesday in the latest signal policy...
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A parliamentary inquiry into AI is being used to “serve a political purpose”, independent senator David Pocock says, branding its initial recommendations a stitch up by the major parties....
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The parliament’s powerful standing committee on economics on Monday published guidelines for submissions for its inquiry into the use of technology to improve Australia’s productivity. And it is promising...
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Australia’s AI standards will hold companies responsible for developing their products and services safely, rather than imposing “prescriptive rules”, assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton says. Speaking at a Trust...