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PM picks AI Office head, digs in on copyright

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...

Govt targets new consumer protections for AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government will investigate new consumer protections for artificial intelligence to address risks such retail surveillance pricing and agentic commerce models. An investigation of potential options for consumer...

Full of promise, light on detail: Experts on PM’s AI pivot

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s leading artificial intelligence experts say the the Albanese government’s AI policy refresh is a welcome step, but still needs details and funding to achieve its goals of influencing...

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...

PM ignores sovereign AI at nation’s peril: Violi

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With the Prime Minister’s singular focus on attracting foreign investment in local data centre construction, local AI systems and software developers will be left wondering why they’re being ignored,...

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...