Labor insiders expect ongoing debate about artificial intelligence when party faithful gather to hash out a policy platform to guide the next three years.

As One Nation and residents groups ramp up campaigns against data centres, the prime minister will deliver a speech on Wednesday, titled AI in Australia’s interests.

Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.

The prime minister will emphasise the technology’s “pivotal” role in resuscitating productivity and warn of extremists and hostile states using it “to spread disinformation that…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will today unveil his plan for managing the rapid rise of AI.

The national AI framework will address concerns on copyrights, education, workforce and energy.

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The measures announced sought ostensibly to please both sides of the debate, the interventionists and the let-it-rip brigade.

Hours before Albanese delivered a major speech on AI in Sydney, the US state of New York imposed a one-year pause on building new data centres.

Australia will enact laws to regulate how artificial intelligence data centers use power and water, and to protect creative copyright, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said…

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Much of the action in determining Labor’s position will be on the ALP National Conference floor next week.

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“This is our time to decide what AI looks like here in Australia,” Prime Minister Albanese said.

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As the technology increasingly encroaches on defence capabilities, cyber experts and the opposition warn that Australia must redouble its efforts to master it.

Labor insiders expect ongoing debate about artificial intelligence when party faithful gather to hash out a policy platform to guide the next three years.