The PM's A.I Office, No One Nation Alliance & The Kids Are On E-Bikes
7/14/202622 min
On The Solo Bureau today, kids and e-bikes, the danger, the injuries and the behaviours they've created as parents thought getting them out of the house and off screens was the right thing to do
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[upbeat music] Good morning, I'm Claire Murphy. Welcome to the Solo Bureau. Coming up today, with school holidays leapfrogging themselves around the country at the moment, I don't know about you, but I have seen just about every second kid on an e-bike in my neck of the woods. Now, I do not want to demonize kids getting out and about and riding bikes. It's all very wholesome. However, every week I'm also seeing stories of e-bike crashes and bike boy gangs that are essentially precursor hoon drivers harassing people. And when a friend of mine spoke to me recently in tears after her ex bought her kids e-bikes for their birthdays, I thought it was maybe time to find out exactly what this mode of transport revolution is doing. But before we do that, here's what was happening while you were sleeping. It's Wednesday, July 15. [upbeat music] The Prime Minister will announce an Office of AI today aimed at tackling Australia's concerns about data centers, job loss through workplace automation, copyright protections for artists, and the use of AI by our defense forces. The Office of AI will create new Australian standards for tech, including bringing together the different approaches to building new data centers by the states and territories. The PM will say that we will be the first country in the world to bring AI into a single national framework,