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: AI music is going to be banned from Australia's top music charts unless it can prove that it was "substantially human-made" This comes weeks after a song with AI vocals became Australia's most played song www.abc.net.au/news/...

AI-generated songs banned from Australian music charts 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

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

[friend shows me a video of them and their partner cradling their newborn infant in hospital] hmm... ai could have made that video for a fraction of the cost.

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"