Toby Walsh bruises some egos at AI committee hearing


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Parliament’s joint committee on artificial intelligence turned awkward on Wednesday when its deputy chair bickered with one of Australia’s leading AI academics who accused the committee members of lobbing soft-ball questions to an OpenAI executive.

Tasmanian Senator Jonathon Duniam demanded to know why UNSW Professor Toby Walsh had not provided the committee with the tough questions for US AI executives, which he had said were needed at an earlier hearing. …

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