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Seizing Australia’s AI opportunity
Open Forum | February 2, 2024New research from the Productivity Commission finds that artificial intelligence could significantly boost Australia’s productivity if governments implement well-directed policy and regulation.
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Australia may regulate “high risk” AI
Lisa Given | January 21, 2024Ed 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.
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Regulating AI
Roberto Viola | January 16, 2024Artificial 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.
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OpenAI in the dock
Mike Cook | January 12, 2024The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI for scraping its content without paying or permission could have major implications for the development of large language models and machine intelligence.
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Canberra embraces AI
Jayson Lamchek | January 11, 2024The Australian Public Service will become one of the first in the world to use AI when it trials Microsoft’s 365 Copilot software next year.
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Aligning AI
Randolph Grace | January 6, 2024Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence but whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess.
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AI in decision making
Bruce Schneier | January 3, 2024Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems, including information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making.
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AI at the bedside
Michelle Lazarus | December 28, 2023Artificial Intelligence has already begun to transform healthcare, but can machine learning ever replace a doctor’s gut instincts about a real, live human patient?
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Challenges ahead for generative AI
Oliver Bown | December 19, 2023Generative AI is upending industries, but little is certain about how this technology will fare amidst a range of issues in a fiercely crowded market.
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Now they read minds
Open Forum | December 12, 2023New mind-reading technology could help people who are unable to speak due to illness or injury to communicate, and even enable seamless communication between humans and machines, including bionic arms and robots.
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AI in the news
Open Forum | December 6, 2023The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society has called for increased investment in research, evaluation tools and infrastructure to address emerging challenges of generative AI and automated decision-making in the news and media industries.
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AI in Asia
ANU Editorial Board | December 5, 2023The scope for AI to reshape economies and drive growth is obvious, but effective, efficient and thoughtful regulation is desperately needed to ensure that the benefits are not monopolised or squandered.