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How can Australia grasp the opportunities and manage the risks of disruptive technologies such as AI?

    Safeguarding Australia’s sovereignty with public digital infrastructure

    23 April 2025

    Digital technologies are evolving rapidly, offering enormous potential – but the platforms shaping this future are driven by profit, not necessarily the public interest. Securing Australia’s sovereignty over digital infrastructure is essential to building an online ecosystem grounded in democratic values.

    Raffaele Ciriello

  • How government can boost manufacturing SMEs – and lift productivity – through adoption of advanced technologies

    Dilupa Nakandala

  • Eight industrial policy hacks: bolstering domestic capability under constrained fiscal conditions

    Christopher Day

  • The dangers of pluralisation: A singular duty of care in the Online Safety Act

    Rys Farthing and Lorna Woods

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  • Digital (t)winning: the potential for AI as a public policy design tool

    While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.

    José-Miguel Bello y Villarino

  • I never said “thank you” to my calculator: reflections from the outgoing NSW Chief Data Scientist

    As AI becomes invisibly embedded in everyday life, we must remain laser focused on controlling and regulating how it uses data and the data it generates.

    Ian Opperman

  • Dull, Dirty and Dangerous

    What is the potential for AI to automate repetitive, low complexity tasks in knowledge sectors? And what can government do to manage this transition?

    Ian Opperman (with ChatGPT)