CAMERON WILSON

NEW: A man asked his AI assistant OpenClaw to book a gym class. It found a exploit in the gym website, got around booking restrictions and kicked someone off the waiting list to move him up a spot It's the first known Australian case of AI agents autonomously hacking! www.abc.…

How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat abc.net.au

NEW: ABC staff have been told there's no question whether the broadcaster will use AI, as it rolls out new tools, hires AI specialists and trials using AI to help write web articles from radio news. Experts & the MEAA cautiously welcome plan but warn misuse could hurt trust ww…

ABC trials AI writing tools for news staff amid trust warnings - ABC News abc.net.au

AI has just had its Sarah Connor moment. Last week's rogue AI story has been dismissed by some as marketing. But even a cynical read of the news & other evidence suggests it should be a "warning shot" for the serious disruptive threat of AI that will soon be widely available w…

AI just had its Sarah Connor moment. Is Australia ready? abc.net.au

Data centres powering AI could demand as much new electricity as cars & houses until 2040, per Greenpeace analysis. It's not just the size of the energy demand, but also its immediacy: forecasts for data centre energy use jumped 6x over the last year www.abc.net.au/news/...

'None of this was forecast': Energy demand from AI data centres soars abc.net.au

Scoop: Australia has picked a philosopher and air force reservist to lead a new body tasked with keeping Australians safe from the harms of AI. Dr Kate Conroy will lead Australia's AI Safety Institute, which will monitor, test and share info on emerging threats from AI. www.ab…

Philosopher tasked with keeping Australians safe from AI abc.net.au

NEW: Dozens of Australian government agencies missed their first test of self-policing their AI use. While these agencies are now compliant, the lapses show pitfalls in Australia's decision to task existing regulators to make their own AI rules instead of a central AI act. www…

Government agencies fail first hurdle under AI self-reporting policy abc.net.au

NEW: Industry Minister Tim Ayres clashed with sen David Pocock over claims cabinet is considering AI copyright changes Pocock says a whistleblower says one plan would exempt AI training from copyright law to get billions in data centre investments and a new creative fund: www.…

Senior Albanese minister clashes with Pocock over top-secret AI copyright claim abc.net.au

Anthony Albanese used his first major speech on AI to call it an urgent challenge and opportunity for Australia. The speech — announcing a new Office of AI and data centre standards — signaled that Australia is taking AI seriously but saved the tough decisions for later.

Albanese rolls out rule book and red carpet for AI companies abc.net.au

NEW: Research on online child sexual victimisation finds AI is now both a major tool of abuse and support. One in 25 teens— about one per class —has experienced, or has a friend who has experienced, AI-involved abuse. Teens more likely to tell AI than authorities www.abc.net.a…

Boys major victims of AI-assisted online sexual abuse, study finds abc.net.au

NEW: Australians lose access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models after the company pulls them in response to Trump admin order. www.abc.net.au/news/...

Australia's AI access cut after Trump order abc.net.au

NEW: The first major review of AI's impact on the Australian job market by the federal government has found that there is no significant labour upheaval yet — but picked up some early warning signs that growth in jobs that are most exposed to AI is slowing www.abc.net.au/news/...

Government report says AI not causing mass job lay-offs, yet abc.net.au

Australia's top news bosses say they've had discussions with AI companies about licensing content -- including managing director Hugh Marks saying the ABC had spoken with Anthropic about its radio/video library. Both sides today say there's no current commercial negotiations w…

AI companies 'stole' Australian culture, news bosses say abc.net.au

OpenAI put out research this week which found no correlation between revenue per employee and use of AI, Fortune reports.

Getting to know the AI beat, one thing has come up with ordinary people, industry, politicians, academics, activists: Most Australians do not trust AI or the people behind it. It's a big issue for an industry that needs people to adopt its products and share their resources.

a truly unfortunate chryon to have under an interview about AI

Looks like major AI companies are continuing to gear up to make Australia a major hub: Anthropic has listed a Data Center (sic) Energy Lead, Australia to "secure multi-hundred megawatt power capacity" at the "speed and scale required for frontier AI development."

ever since I was a little boy I always wanted to produce training data for large language models ❤️

ha a judge says that he whacked a judgment into ChatGPT as a test and, when it spat out incorrect details, had it admit that it had hallucinated

Australia can avoid an US-style backlash against AI if it acts now to keep Australians safe from the harms of the new technology, Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said as he announced that the government's AI Safety Institute is now up and running.

AFR's Street Talk column got their hands on Anthropic's computing demand tender to Australian data centre companies: 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, with 1 gigawatt by the end of 2027. That's more than capacity of the entire Australia's data centre industry in 2025.

it's so crazy that we're seeing daily headlines about some unsolved problem being answered by AI, and when you read the article it's like "here's the prompt that the researcher used"

Interesting insight into One Nation's views on AI and data centres: NSW senator Sean Bell says he's concerned that Australia may become dependant on Chinese data centres if we don't build them here, but also says the public is worried about data centres and renewable energy being built near them.