Tag: artifical intelligence

Services Australia lays ethical AI footing

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Services Australia has set interim guardrails for the development and use of artificial intelligence at the agency, including technology that is used for public-facing government services. As work continues...

Services Australia quietly paused automation 12 months ago

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Services Australia quietly stopped its use of automation for social security and welfare claims processing almost 12 months ago, resulting in a blowout in wait times for some Centrelink...

Inquiry urges SA govt to build sovereign AI capability

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A South Australian parliamentary inquiry has backed calls to develop sovereign artificial intelligence capability to ensure the state can reap the economic benefits of the emerging technology and mitigate...

Why ‘responsible AI’ has a fundamental flaw

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
Almost daily, developments in AI make headlines – from updates in regulation, to what’s allowed in schools, numerous copyright and privacy breaches, to the latest in the high-profile Hollywood...

Toby Walsh calls for investment push on sovereign AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia is ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunities being created by artificial intelligence and is not investing sufficiently in sovereign capability to adequately safeguard the national interest, according...

Taskforce created to set public service guardrails for AI

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new government taskforce has been tasked with forging a set of guardrails for the use of artificial intelligence in the Australian Public Service, as the Albanese government seeks...

Biden adviser on Australia’s AI ethics debate

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A bottom-up approach to AI ethics should be adopted across the Australian government, according to an expert adviser to the Biden Administration, who says public servants must be empowered...