Universities are calling for a National Centre for AI in education to share best practice and costly infrastructure, warning researchers and educators are currently reliant on foreign vendors and their models as the technology races ahead.
“Our dependence on large technology providers for this technology is something that I think we have to think about very carefully as a country and make sure we’ve got sovereign capability in that area,” UTS deputy vice-chancellor of enterprise Professor Glenn Wightwick said on Tuesday.
The warning follows similar concerns from experts that an underinvestment in the technology in Australia is damaging local capabilities, creating a national security risk and limiting access to data and models housed overseas.
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