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Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930sGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere’s nothing like a threat of human extinction to focus the mind.The threat of AI to the existence of humanity has long been raised. Continue reading…
Parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser deemed invalid after board cited non-existent case law Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA review of potential artificial intelligence use in parole decisions will be undertaken after a “concerning” error in the case of a high-profile murderer.Tasmania’s justice department on Friday evening confirmed
As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller countryGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastStatesmen, shysters, dictators. Over the years, the United Nations has seen all kinds of world leaders.But when he arrives in
Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malicious cyber actors’Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcastWhen a man with a terminal illness wrote to his local MP Andrew Hastie, telling him he planned on ending his own life
Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on
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After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them winPoised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while
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Minister for public service says the devices pose ‘legitimate privacy and security concerns’ in commonwealth-run workplaces The Albanese government is considering a “world-leading” ban on smart glasses in its offices and service centres as councils around Australia push the technology out of public spaces over privacy fears.The government has avoided a sweeping ban on the
The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian contentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government.Your posts and online presence are up for grabs
Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its gridAnthropic, the AI giant behind the large language model Claude, has done a deal to lease the site of its first Australian datacentre in western Queensland.The state premier, David Crisafulli, announced the decision in parliament
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Every family photo you ever posted would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt outLeaked documents from a government proposal show that the Albanese government is considering reversing the fundamental rights of Australians under copyright law.The proposal refers to an “opt-out model”. This would give AI companies permission to train on
