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Human Rights Commission says data centres a threat to human rights
The Australian Human Rights Commission says data centres – which are seeing an extraordinary boom due to artificial intelligence investment – threaten human rights. Source: The Australian.
Pope tells Catholic legislators to put family at heart of AI policy
Months after standing at the Vatican to warn of artificial intelligence development becoming concentrated in a handful of wealthy nations, AI giant Anthropic was found to have been privately asking the NSW Government to make way for massive computing capacity. Source: The Catholic Leader.
South Australia to hold royal commission into AI
South Australia will hold a royal commission into artificial intelligence and the policy around it, with the state government warning of the technology’s potentially destructive impacts as well as acknowledging its upsides. Source: ABC News.
People are not data to be optimised: technology ethicist
The growing influence of artificial intelligence is prompting society to ask profound questions about what it means to be human, according to technology ethicist Victoria Lorrimar. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Technology must serve truth and the common good: Pope
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged communicators to ensure that every technological tool is placed “at the service of truth and the common good”, as the Church reflects on the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence. Source: Vatican News.
AI developments require ‘new spiritual, ethical and political framework’
Humanity is at a crossroads, facing both an ecological crisis on a warming planet and the anthropological predicament of humanity’s future in relation to artificial intelligence, writes Sr Adele Howard RSM. Source: Mercy Eco Communications.
University rises to the challenge of AI
As artificial intelligence transforms society, the most pressing challenge is ensuring that technology is guided by ethics, human dignity and the common good, according to experts at the launch of Australian Catholic University’s Human and Digital Futures initiative.
Pope becomes first faith leader to have his writings declared ‘AI free’
Pope Leo XIV’s writings on artificial intelligence have become the first work of a faith leader to be officially verified as man-made, via an Australian outfit working with authors and artists to certify their work as bot-free. Source: Daily Telegraph.
Labor to tighten rules around government use of AI
Australia will tighten oversight of artificial intelligence in automated government decision-making and strengthen privacy safeguards as part of a broader push to allay concerns about the technology’s risks to community safety. Source: ABC News.