David Allen

Governments must move quickly to regulateartificial intelligence companies and drive a human rights approach to large language models or risk losing control of them, a United Nations report says. Accelerating business-led development of AI has put governments on a legislative backfoot, the report warns, because the technology is advancing faster than evidence about its impact can be gathered.

Digital safety laws under developmentby Communications minister Anika Wells could make a real difference in stamping out online child sex abuse, advocates say, but the process must be accelerated. Tech platforms should be forced to go harder on safety measures that block illegal online content, including one of the fastest rising forms of child abuse, a parliamentary panel was told Monday.

South Australian police officers will put artificial intelligence to work on the beat through a new trial of digital speech-to-text software the force hopes will eliminate hours of desk work. South Australian Police (SAPOL) on Monday said it would go to tender for a three-month AI transcription service trial, one of several bankrolled by a… Want to know how this story ends? Become a subscriber for complete access to all stories on InnovationAus.com and our daily newsletter. Do you know more?