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 seeks to unpack the emergent relationship between open data and generative AI. The authors provide a range of scenarios in which open data and generative AI could intersect, and outline how open data providers and other interested parties can help make open data 'ready' for those specific scenarios.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is leveraging its propaganda system to build a toolkit to enable information campaigns. Its objective is to control communication and shape narratives and perceptions about China in order to present a specific version of truth and reality, both domestically and internationally. This report finds that the CCP seeks to harvest...

This report explores the potential for artificial intelligence to benefit educators, students and teachers. The report stresses the importance of responsible deployment, addressing issues like data privacy and equitable access. Aimed at policy-makers and educators, it urges stakeholders to collaborate to ensure AI's positive integration into education systems worldwide leads to improved outcomes for all.

Since technologies are not neutral, the principles underpinning digital technologies and their governance system are fundamental to protecting their capacity to foster, maintain and protect human rights. This paper identifies four areas of work that highlight the main opportunities for embracing democracy through an open and safe digital future, as well as the challenges to...