Understanding Europe’s approach to AI

The European Union’s new AI legislation is a careful balancing act between power and responsibility, innovation and trust, and freedom and safety.

Australia may regulate “high risk” AI

Ed Husic, the Federal Minister for Industry and Science, has announced the Australian government’s response to the Safe and Responsible AI in Australia consultation, pledging to regulate what he terms ‘high risk’ AI.

Regulating AI

Artificial intelligence will radically transform our societies and economies in the next few year and so the world’s democracies have a duty to minimise the risks this new technology poses through smart regulation, without standing in the way of the many benefits it will bring to people’s lives.

Regulating AI

We have seen extraordinary developments in generative AI over the past 12 months that underline the challenges we face in protecting these rights and principles.

Protecting digital democracy

Attempts by the United Nations to create multilateral safeguards for the digital world shouldn’t allow brutal dictatorships such as Russia and China to circumscribe free speech to protect their own interests and agenda.

National (artificial) intelligence

Regulating AI to maximise Australia’s national security capabilities and minimise the risks presented to them will require focus, caution and intent.

Regulating AI

Regulation was once a dirty word in tech companies around the world but some of the largest players in AI are now asking for controls, if only to cement their own power.

Regulating AI

Advanced artificial intelligence technologies are being adopted at an unprecedented pace, and their potential to revolutionise society for good is enormous, but the potential for harm is increasing calls for oversight and regulation.

AI regulation would protect big tech, rather than humanity

The recent spate of calls to regulate AI from some of the biggest players in the sector are motivated by their desire to protect their market dominance rather than any real concern about the socially disruptive impact of generative AI or the existential threat posed by artificial general intelligence.

Can the U.S. Congress regulate A.I.?

The U.S. congress is responding to rising expert and public concern over the potential of AI to change society, although the effectiveness of such measures – even if they were replicated around the world – remains open to question.

Unleash innovation to fight COVID-19

Amid the darkness of the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy of people around the world who are working together to find solutions is a bright spark. Governments and regulators can catch that spark and magnify it to help light a way out of this crisis.

When guard dogs become pets – The problem of ‘regulatory capture’

The fallout from Australia’s recent banking scandals raise a wider question – Do our regulators act in the public interest, or in the interest of those they are meant to regulate?