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As AI-powered cyber-crime, fraud and malware proliferates, policy makers and internet users will have to balance the benefits of innovation with new threats to their security and privacy.

What can AI do you for?

Amid the excitement around generative AI, it is important to remember that AI is more than chatbots. It impacts many things beyond the flashy conversational tools – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.

Bringing it all back home

The widespread use of Generative AI will force teachers to reshape homework from simple retrieval tasks to projects that require deeper engagement and application of knowledge.

Unlocking AI’s potential

Critics of AI highlight its threat to human creativity, jobs, democracy and even life itself, but oversight by the United Nations might still have the potential to ensure it is used for good.

The age of intelligence – or AI hype?

OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman argues that AI driven “superintelligence’ may be just a “few thousand days” away while behind the scenes he reportedly plans to turn the research organisation into a commercial company and take a 7% stake for himself.

A tsunami of slop

TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms are being flooded with a tsunami of meaningless, engagement farming AI generated slop and things are only getting worse.

Science or sausage factory?

A generative LLM trained on appropriate data can churn out something that looks like a good scientific paper but this doesn’t mean it has any value.

Automating education?

EdTech firms such as Prifina, Khanmigo and Cogniti are developing AI teaching clones trained on course materials which can interact with students around the clock, but will automating education make us better people?

The environmental costs of AI

The Senate Select Committee into Adopting Artificial Intelligence has been warned the technology could lead to a rise in carbon emissions and other environmental impacts if not managed carefully.

Putting the AI in Australia

Federal Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic wants more people to use AI, but Australians might be better served by protections from it.

Working with AI

Generative AI has properties that are very different from other technologies and will transform our labour market.

The birth of AI

A summer camp on a college campus 68 years ago laid the foundation for the AI revolution we’re experiencing today.