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Albanese’s love affair with music is on the rocks over AI. Can he write a different tune? | Peter Lewis

The prime minister is trying to untangle the copyright knot. But this is about much more than intellectual propertyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf Anthony Albanese has a spiritual home it would be somewhere between the old Sando and the Enmore theatre in that pocket of Sydney’s inner west where

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Mandatory AI safety and security protections announced after OpenAI breach of Medicare – video

Australia’s prime minister said its government would set up a new AI safety regulator and Labor would consider six key obligations on AI companies. The review made 18 recommendations. Anthony Albanese said: ‘We accept all of the recommendations, and we’ve commenced work to implement them.’Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial

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Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’

Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’OpenAI won’t face criminal penalties over the Medicare hack but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies.Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations

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Australians are yet to see the benefits of AI and datacentres – and US midterms show they could be political kryptonite

Albanese should tread carefully as he struggles to make case for how the new technology will benefit ordinary votersGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastWhen will Australia see the benefits of the AI and datacentre boom? So far, all we’ve seen is the possibility of changes to copyright which would hurt

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Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads

Transparency and advertising experts say trust in politics could be further eroded as a result of ‘lies, deepfakes and AI-generated politicians’Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastIt’s the night of Halloween and Jess Wilson has appeared on social media feeds with a warning about a scary prospect: “Americanised healthcare” under a

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Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI

Centre for Public Integrity report says mandatory audit and public register of all automated decision-making neededGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government is “sleepwalking its way into another robodebt” scandal amid a lack of transparency and legislation around use of algorithms and artificial intelligence in decisions, the chief executive

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‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry

Cost of living and AI outrank climate change and war as top concerns for future, but support for multiculturalism remains strongGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe vast majority of Australians support immigration and multiculturalism despite more feeling poorer – and increasingly pessimistic and distrustful of government, the annual Scanlon report

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Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal

Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative communityGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister is facing growing discontent within his own electorate as creatives push back against the federal government’s proposal to

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Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey saysGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastAltering copyright law to allow AI companies to scrape music, books and journalism could trigger a constitutional breach, Coalition senators and the recording industry have warned, as they raise

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‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws

Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower houseThe federal government wants to ban AI chatbots which seek to create “emotional intimacy” after prime minister Anthony Albanese raised the alarm in a heartfelt speech about children treating these agents as their “best friend”.But Labor is coming

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