Approaches to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) have turned from discussions around safety, ethics and human rights, into ones around productivity, efficiency and worker outputs. This report is a literature review around current AI productivity claims. It is intended to provide key insights and evidence-based counterpoints to current claims around AI productivity.

The author of this paper argues that Australia must invest in sovereign capability in artificial intelligence (AI), with a public good imperative to service the community’s ongoing needs. Taxing large technology companies appropriately, and generating special levies, or charging them for the datasets they use, could contribute towards developing a sovereign, public AI infrastructure in...

This paper argues that as state governments begin trialling home quarantine programs, they need to take active steps to ensure they are not crossing a new frontier in the surveillance of citizens by using facial recognition technology.

Mass vaccination is needed to mitigate against the effects of COVID-19, and to help Australia start to ease restrictions. This paper explores some fundamental principles which form the blueprint for a safe and ethical 'vaccination passport' system.

In recent times, online platforms like Facebook have usurped core aspects of what we expect from a public square. This discussion paper aims to initiate a focused discussion around the type of digital infrastructure we want to power our public square.