Tag: AI

Ed Santow’s decade of wrestling with AI ethics

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Beyond the hype: Australia’s pragmatic path to AI

Posted on   |  by Mike Bareja and Helen Zhang
Artificial intelligence has begun its descent from its hype peak. The breathless talk of super-intelligence and job wipe-outs is yielding to a sober reality now. Even OpenAI chief executive...

‘Digital sovereignty’: EU’s new focus on homegrown tech

Posted on   |  by Michael FitzGerald
Over the past decade, prominent European politicians seemed to think that legal regulation would be enough to control the internet. They focused primarily on drafting laws to regulate foreign...

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

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

South Korea agrees to join UAE’s Stargate AI project

Posted on   |  by Hyunjoo Jin
South Korea has agreed to work with the United Arab Emirates on the US-backed Stargate project to build a massive new artificial intelligence data campus in the Gulf country....

GovAI no silver bullet for Canberra’s legacy IT woes

Posted on   |  by Olivia Shen
Last week, Finance minister Katy Gallagher unveiled the government’s AI Plan for the Australian Public Service. Across fifteen initiatives and three ‘pillars’, the plan aims to boost AI adoption...

Defence rolls out Microsoft Copilot on protected network

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Defence has rolled out Microsoft Copilot to tens of thousands of staff through its protected-level internal network, making it the last of Canberra’s biggest agencies to adopt the AI...

Victoria’s SenSen Networks brings order to urban curb chaos

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
The humble roadside curb is becoming an increasingly contested and important space.   With the expansion of some restaurants and cafes, the growing use of ride-hailing pick-ups and drop-offs and...