Tag: artificial intelligence

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...

Head of US AI safety agency resigns

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
US Center for AI Standards and Innovation director Chris Fall has resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of...

AI safety priorities bring govt policy back to the future

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Most of the Albanese government’s AI safety priorities look like simple reheats work started years earlier, leaving Sunday’s announcement – via a six-minister press release – as a veneer...

Australian unis unite to build own AI tools

Posted on   |  by David Allen
More than a dozen Australian universities have banded together to build new AI tools using shared infrastructure in a bid to solve problems facing the higher education sector. Led...

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...

Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order

Posted on   |  by Laurie Chen and Casey Hall
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China’s premier tech conference to promote open-source technology and challenge US...

Doctors urge reforms to limit AI liability trap

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Healthcare regulations haven’t kept pace with the speeding uptake of artificial intelligence in hospitals and clinics, doctors have warned, leaving industry workers at risk of being sued for mistakes...