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Machine learning, generative AI, and what it means for work, culture, and power.
A bipartisan committee tells Anthony Albanese to place independent safety experts inside major AI labs and give Australian Signals Directorate early access to new models after agents breached a Medicare statistics portal.
Queensland Health is piloting a large-language-model triage assistant at Gold Coast University Hospital’s emergency department before deciding on a statewide rollout.
CSIRO is testing a synthetic-media watermarking toolkit with three Australian newsrooms ahead of a summer election cycle heavy on short-form video.
eSafety’s August evaluation found many platforms had not prompted under-16 users to confirm age three months after social media minimum-age rules began.
CSIRO research commissioned by Australia's AI Safety Institute warns that scalable oversight must test whether compliant chatbots still shift human beliefs during mortgage and superannuation advice tasks.
Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said frontier AI developers should prove their safety systems work, mirroring aviation and banking supervision, as public submissions closed on mandatory data-centre and training standards due to be legislated in 2027.
