Hidden in the fine print on the Climate Change Authority's decision to pull back its emissions target? The role of artificial intelligence and data centres.

Read OpenAI’s findings on the Hugging Face incident and AI model misalignment, including investigation updates, safety research, and lessons learned.

Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed. On Friday, the government said the review by spy agency, the Australian signals directorate, would consider whether legislative change was needed after the prime minister revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare’s statistics website and three other systems in June. Continue reading...

Sam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report.

Australia’s leader said it was ‘unacceptable’ OpenAI took months to report the incident.

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

A dual-income system would encourage people to invest in themselves while reducing incentives to split or reclassify income to exploit lower tax rates * One Big Idea is a series on how to transform Australia’s economy in the lead-up to Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable After working for three years on tax reform, choosing just one big idea is like choosing your favourite child. Allegra Spender is the independent member for Wentworth Continue reading...