AI AND ML<\/p>\n
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage<\/p>\n
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a landmark speech outlining the nation\u2019s AI policy, which will require datacenter builders to contribute more energy than they consume and mean AI companies must reach agreements with local artists and media before using their content.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me make this crystal clear \u2013 not everything produced in Australia is up for grabs,\u201d Albanese said, a reference to both content and the nation\u2019s energy and water resources.<\/p>\n
The PM said Australia will therefore legislate to require builders of large new datacenters to become net generators of energy, rather than consumers, by funding electricity generation projects to meet their needs and pay for associated work to bolster energy grids.<\/p>\n
The policy also requires datacenter operators to pay for water infrastructure and make minimal environmental impacts.<\/p>\n
The PM expects Australia\u2019s states and territories to sign up to his plan so the nation can offer expedited approval processes for datacenter builds and consistent operating standards that apply across the country.<\/p>\n
Nationwide laws, Albanese argued, will make Australia a more attractive destination for inbound investment by making it easier for AI companies to plan new datacenters \u2013 and perhaps offset other elements of the policy that are more onerous than laws in other countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralian writers, musicians, artists and journalists, must retain ownership and control of their work,\u201d Albanese said. \u201cAnything less is theft.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Australia\u2019s approach \u201cwill ensure Australian writers, artists and journalists retain ownership over their work, meaning no company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist\u2019s control.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PM added his view that no country has given artists and rights-holders sufficient control of how AI companies use their works. Albanese didn\u2019t say how he plans to enforce that control, but his speech framed the effort to do so as getting ahead of AI before big players get too much power.<\/p>\n
Albanese asked his audience to imagine how much better off Australia would be if it had regulated social media a decade before the 2024 introduction of a ban on children aged under 16 accessing such services. He also compared the AI plan to past landmark reforms won by the global labor movement, such as winning a minimum wage and fixed working week.<\/p>\n
The PM also said that without regulations of this sort, Australia will effectively outsource its security to big tech companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we are always dependent on someone else, somewhere else, we will be vulnerable,\u201d he said. The AI policy aims to instead make Australia stronger.<\/p>\n
Albanese argued that Australians should not see AI as a threat to jobs, but that strong policy can make the technology a means to create new ones \u2013 beyond employment created by a short-term datacenter construction boom.<\/p>\n
The PM wrapped his speech by suggesting AI can stand for \u201cAustralia\u2019s Interest\u201d as well as \u201cartificial intelligence.\u201d \u00ae <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI AND ML PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-801147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}