Last week, artificial intelligence pioneers and experts urged major AI labs to immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.
An open letter penned by the Future of Life Institute cautioned that AI systems with “human-competitive intelligence” could become a […]
The Australian Human Rights Commission have launched a campaign calling for a national Human Rights Act, citing the “lack of lawful basis” for COVID-19 measures as a main reason protections are needed
Services Australia is using telecommunications metadata and password-bypassing software to investigate welfare recipients suspected of claiming single payments while in relationships.
Don’t ever forget not that long ago, Queenslanders were banned by armed police from crossing the border to visit a dying relative as an inept bureaucracy failed spectacularly, writes Mike O’Connor.
Sky News […]
The Covid-19 vaccines have been at the centre of a heated debate since their introduction, with many questions and concerns raised about their safety and effectiveness.
Speculation has also been rife that the Covid-19 injections may contain traces of Graphene […]
The FBI previously purchased access to “netflow” data, which a company called Team Cymru obtains from ISPs. Team Cymru then sells it to the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid tens of thousands of dollars on internet data, known as “netflow” data, collected in bulk by a private company, […]
Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users’ […]
Yesterday I spoke in support of Senator Babet’s motion to hold an inquiry into excess deaths.
Overall deaths in Australia this year will come in under just 190,000 deaths, up from around 164,000 in 2019 and 171,000 in 2021.
European Union lawmakers are on track to ban the use of remote biometric surveillance for general law enforcement purposes. However that hasn’t stopped parliamentarians in France voting to deploy AI to monitor public spaces for suspicious behavior during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
