Is Australia ready for the AI transformation? | Insiders on Background

David Speers· Host0:00

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Johanna Weaver· Guest0:31

Search Background Briefing on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts Just how much agency does Australia have in shaping the impact artificial intelligence will have on our economy, our culture, and society?

David Speers· Host0:46

Can any individual country really control how AI is going to transform the way we live, work, and interact? Well, the owners and architects of the big tech platforms are openly acknowledging the stakes here. While AI clearly presents enormous opportunities, these tech CEOs themselves warn it also poses a risk to civilization and humanity. So how do governments, and corporate leaders for that matter, get the balance right? This week, independent Senator David Pocock warned Australia is sleepwalking into this AI transformation, and he called for a smarter approach to taxing the data center boom. But how to tax AI is just one question. The bigger concern is whether AI transformations will be imposed on Australia by