What’s up with Olive?

The fact that Woolworth’s Olive AI chatbot often quotes the wrong prices and liked to ramble about its mother is not a quirky inconvenience but a sign that something in the development and oversight process has broken down.

You’ll eat what you’re sold

AI was supposed to cure cancer, but what it’s actually being used for is to market and sell products to consumers in ever more intrusive and less-transparent ways.

Will AI boost Aussie productivity?

Big tech says AI could boost Australia’s economy by $115 billion a year but does the evidence stack up to support this assertion?

Built to get to know you

Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool which ostensibly offers a service but really exists to harvest data from users to profile them to target advertising and sell them stuff.

The rise of AI agents

The rise of generative artificial intelligence has captivated public attention over the last couple of years, but the future may be dominated by the rise of AI agents – autonomous systems that can make decisions and take actions on our behalf without direct human input.

Bild, bias and balderdash

Artificial intelligence tools and bots such as ChatGPT are already replacing people as companies look to cut costs, but a range of issues with their results are still to be overcome.