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British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia

‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UKGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf you want to state the case against copyright reform in Australia, get Kylie Minogue’s phone number.If there is one lesson […]

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Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’

Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in USAustralian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI datacentres is an inauthentic import from the United States.Like the US, Australia is seeing community resentment grow in response to a surge in the construction

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Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentresGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to face a Senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites.Sam Altman and Dario

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She was convicted of a murder she says she didn’t commit. Then AI hallucinations stopped her speaking out

Tasmania’s Parole Board used a document citing legal authorities that do not exist to prevent Susan Neill-Fraser from proclaiming her innocence. Advocates say the case is ‘deeply troubling’On 26 January 2009, a troublesome yacht called the Four Winds was moored on the Derwent River in Tasmania.Bob Chappell, a physicist at the Royal Hobart hospital, was

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NSW crackdown on ‘AI-doctored’ real estate listings hits mural-covered wall

Apartment with strange view singled out in government’s fight against deceptive ads – but real estate agent says photo is no fakeGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government’s crackdown on “AI-doctored” rental listings has hit a wall, after it made an example of a supposedly manipulated ad

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OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

As the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI raceWhen the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat down for an interview in the heart of Silicon Valley at the weekend he had known for two days that his was the first government known to have been

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It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this extraordinary new eraGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 130 world leaders descended on the United Nations headquarters in New York this week, joining the pageantry and speechmaking of the annual general assembly.Many of the visiting

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‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack

Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crimeGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare,

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Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – podcast

A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises

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Open AI attacked Australia’s health system – and then doubled down on its negligence. The time for ‘wait and see’ is over | Kate Crawford and Edward Santow

Human hackers face serious consequences, and so must AI companies. There is no excuse for what happenedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen you get sick, Medicare exists to take care of you. It sits at the centre of a health system that our prime minister rightly calls the envy of

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