Tag: AI

Politicians skirt bounds of government AI policy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Politicians and their offices are exempt from a key policy governing the use of artificial intelligence across the public sector, exposing a blind spot in Canberra’s push to regulate...

China accuses US of ‘AI hegemonism’ over tech theft claims

Posted on   |  by Eduardo Baptista
China’s commerce ministry has accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” and threatened countermeasures after senior US officials said Chinese AI companies could face investigations, sanctions and trade restrictions...

AI and data centre laws fast-tracked for early 2027

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
New laws forcing data centres to underwrite new clean power supplies and not displace housing supplies will be revealed later this year and introduced in early 2027. The expedited...

Australia can set the standard for AI-era infrastructure

Posted on   |  by Robin Khuda
Listening to the Prime Minister’s address earlier this month, the significance of the moment was clear. Artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure are no longer being treated as narrow technology issues, but rather as national...

The politics of AI is playing catch-up with policy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
“We cannot become permanently dependent on foreign technology monopolies for the intelligence that powers our economy… Technology doesn’t come with values. So we must assert our values onto it.”...

OpenAI’s rogue AI scare fuels push for ‘kill switch’

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official...

PM picks AI Office head, digs in on copyright

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed Australian creatives will have the “strongest possible protections” from artificial intelligence companies stealing their work and acknowledged growing fears about job losses from...

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of...