Leading tech CEOs Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have called for urgent action to slow down the arms race on AI, citing a threat to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Question Time today, Senator Hanson-Young asked if the Government would commit to a moratorium on data centre approval and construction or to making upcoming legislation on data centres retrospective. Senator Wong, representing the Prime Minister, failed to answer the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full exchange available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens environment and communications spokesperson:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen the three leading CEOs of AI companies are telling you there\u2019s a problem with the hyper speed of AI, its time for governments to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead, the Albanese Government seems determined to roll out the welcome mat for the construction of dozens and dozens of data centres across Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNew York and Texas have imposed moratoriums on the building of new data centres following fierce backlash from local communities. It\u2019s time for Australia to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith American communities strongly rejecting data centres, Australia is becoming a destination of choice for AI companies because of our lack of regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRight now, it\u2019s the wild west for cowboy data centre operators, there are no rules. We need to take a pause while we get the settings right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government has rightly acknowledged the need for a regulatory framework but while they are dragging their feet to bring a bill to the parliament, data centres are popping up all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis extractive industry is already taking our energy and water and giving little back to the Australian community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnless we have a moratorium or a commitment that the future laws will be retrospective, it\u2019s a green light to the industry to get in quick and build, build, build before the rules are put in place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leading tech CEOs Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have called for urgent action to slow down the arms race on AI, citing a threat to humanity. In Question Time today, Senator Hanson-Young asked if the Government would commit to a moratorium on data centre approval and construction or to making upcoming legislation on … Continue reading “Albanese Government Refuses to Commit to a Moratorium on Data Centres amid call for Global Slow Down on AI”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40858,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857\/revisions\/40858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}