Author: Justin Hendry

Husic says AI regulation a priority for re-elected govt

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Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government is committed to finalising its risk-based model for regulating AI despite pull-back in the United States and the European Union. In...

NSW Police turn off facial recognition in suspect ID system

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Facial recognition technology used within a system for identifying potential suspects for more than a decade has been deactivated by NSW Police amid concerns over its accuracy. The country’s...

Defence’s powerful new supercomputer comes online

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A new Defence supercomputer almost a decade in the making is now up and running in Adelaide, delivering machine learning and AI capabilities to defence scientists. Defence declared the...

Govt disbands Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee

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The Albanese government has dissolved the Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee, sweeping away one of the last vestiges of the Coalition’s former flagship industry program. The Entrepreneurs’ Programme Committee was...

Innovation Blueprint: A long-term vision for NSW

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Innovation-intensive companies are a focus for economic policymakers because they make an outsized contribution to productivity growth and economic well-being.  This is well recognised by governments around the world....

Canberra’s AI transparency laggards fall in line

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Federal government agencies that missed a key AI transparency deadline earlier this year have now largely fallen into line, with just two mandatory declarations still outstanding across the public...