Tag: artificial intelligence

Finance union calls for AI job loss freeze as tech spreads

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
AI is in widespread use across Australia’s financial sector with almost no oversight, according to its workers, who warn the technology could kill jobs and turbocharge the unethical behaviour...

AI inaction will hollow out economy, experts warn

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s economy is at risk of ‘uberisation’ and losing its world renowned research edge without a rapid acceleration in AI investment, according to local experts that will front a...

Australia is making a mess of its industry response to AI

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
There is chatter going around the Australian software sector that the federal government has conducted extensive polling to gauge Australians attitudes to generative AI. The chatter says the polling...

AI boom driving a surge in carbon emissions

Posted on   |  by Gordon Noble and Fiona Berry
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence applications. According to one estimate, the...

Why Australia shouldn’t pursue sovereign AI

Posted on   |  by Susan Aaronson
Australia and the United States have been close allies for over a century and have similar views about how to develop, deploy, and govern artificial intelligence. Researchers in the...

AI models riding roughshod over privacy

Posted on   |  by Katharine Kemp
Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence models that generate images. A new report from the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has found...

NSW waters down government AI risk regime

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government has tweaked its AI guidance for public servants and will now require that only systems with high levels of residual risk undergo external review....

Call for sovereign AI fund to attract investment

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia is being urged to follow Canada’s lead and create a sovereign fund to stimulate private investment in domestic AI capabilities, with one of the world’s largest consulting firms...