AI is the most consequential technology we will ever create. The visit by Japan’s pro-industry Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to Australia this week was a chance to bind our efforts with those of a natural …
Articles by: "David Wroe"
I’ve just finished reading a fantasy novel written entirely by an AI. The Second Son of the House of Bells is the story of a young bellmaker whose keen musical ear makes him an agent of political …
If you were a tech giant that had set up data centres in the Middle East because of the cheap fossil-fuel power and permissive regulatory environment, you might now be looking wistfully at Australia. Right …
The US–Israeli military campaign against Iran is unlikely to extinguish the sparks of the regime’s nuclear program, one of the world’s top arms control experts says. This raises the prospect that diplomacy and deterrence will …
Imagine we found a way to build gods—or demons. Would we want private companies to have sole responsibility and control over the almighty? Imagine the workload on their legal teams. Fine, they’re dramatic questions, but …
Recent commentary has cast Australia’s effort at reducing under-16s’ use of social media as a technical policy stumble, a flawed experiment in age assurance and enforcement. That lens risks being too narrow. Yes, age verification …
What do you say at a moment like this? Even to a skilled wielder of words, almost everything is inadequate, which is why well-meaning politicians tend to flail about in great cobwebs of cliches. How …
Artificial intelligence and its ability to perform intellectual tasks previously the preserve of humans are improving at a stunning rate, and yet we are complacent or politically paralysed in the face of this transformation. The …
Greenland, an often-overlooked expanse of ice and rock, is fast becoming a focal point of strategic competition between the United States, China and Russia. Speaking on ASPI’s Stop the World, Elizabeth Buchanan—an Arctic specialist and author …
Armies hold the key to credible deterrence in the Indo-Pacific because they form the backbone of regional security networks and are harder for China to neutralise, according to a former commanding general of the US …
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has urged US President Donald Trump to use his influence—including through further sanctions pressure—to help free more than 1,200 political prisoners held by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, branding it …
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s ebullient visit to China last week was quite the shot across Washington’s bows. A clear message was that Australia has some leverage in the alliance—it’s not all the United States’ way. …