Australia’s chief scientist – a quantum physicist by trade – got to the heart of the online harm problems facing Australia in a way other experts appearing at Monday’s Senate hearing on AI did not.
While witnesses offered options for driving rapid uptake in a responsible way that builds up access, awareness and Australian made AI, Dr Cathey Foley urged lawmakers to consider the biases in AI that drive technology-related harms.
“We should be looking at how can you put things in place to deal with surveillance advertising [or] targeted behavioral advertising which uses AI,” she told the inquiry. “We need to get down to a granular level.”
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