Ep. 191: Tim Watts MP on AI sovereignty, safety and Australia’s choices

Australia in the World by Darren Lim

Sep 12, 202659:48News & Politics

In a somewhat different episode of the podcast, Darren speaks with Tim Watts MP, a member of the parliament’s new Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, about how Australia should think about AI at a moment w...

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