Cameron Wilson is the ABC's national AI reporter, based in the Specialist Reporting Team in Sydney.
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A fictional election in "Kingstonia" is helping students at UNSW learn how to manipulate and sway voters on social media by using AI bots.
There's concern about the role artificial intelligence is playing in elections across the globe, and Australian university students are learning how they work, how to detect them, and potentially how to stop them.
The list of government agencies caught up in potential data breaches involving embattled transcription company VIQ Solutions is growing, with FOI documents revealing both the ATO and ASIC conducted investigations after fears data had been sent offshore in 2025.
Billions of dollars in commitments to buy AI chips by Firmus are in doubt as a result of the Australian data centre company's stalled attempt to go public, according to records filed with the financial regulator.
The ABC is among the more than two dozen Australian government critical infrastructure, universities and media organisations that researchers claim were targeted by an Israel-based company.
Australians should expect an increase in future data breaches as a result of critical software flaws that have forced major government websites, education platforms and web hosts to go offline.
Australia's nuclear science agency and other highly sensitive government organisations have been targeted by a sophisticated, foreign bad actor that secretly weaponised online ads to install spyware.
Father Paolo Benanti is a Franciscan friar but he is also a key adviser to the Vatican on AI, and he has a warning for Australia about the actions of AI companies.
Cam Wilson, who is the ABC's AI reporter, recently discovered an AI-generated book about him and a book he wrote.
OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, made his first public appearance in Sydney since the hack, saying he could not explain why Australians distrust AI.
It had been pencilled in for a centrestage performance, tapping into a bit of Silicon Valley star power, but it's a bruised OpenAI that's set to limp into the Australian political spotlight today.
A study finds AI models are more likely to answer harmful questions or mishandle confidential information when told to act drunk.
A controversial proposed data centre has been withdrawn by its developer after it became a flashpoint amid growing opposition to the AI infrastructure development across the country.
OpenAI says dozens more third parties were affected by rogue agents bypassing website security controls, as new traces reveal days of attempts to access Australian health data.
As questions linger as to whether OpenAI will face legal consequences for its Medicare hack, a man who faced decades in jail for alleged cybercrimes says Australian law is harsher on individuals than organisations.
The Prime Minister has announced that an AI agent from the OpenAI company has breached a Medicare data website.
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has posted on social media, sharing a selfie of himself and Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention into Australia's debate about its proposed digital duty of care.
AI companies could be legally required to report rogue incidents such as the hacking of another company, under a proposal from the Albanese government as part of its plans for new safety, environmental and industrial rules for the technology.
The leaked plans have sparked backlash from creatives and critics across the political spectrum.
Leaked government documents reveal AI companies would be allowed to train their models on online content without paying its creators as long as they struck deals with enough rights holders.
Australian Signals Directorate director-general Abigail Bradshaw says the nation needs an AI "early warning system" to help defend against the increasingly powerful technology.
AI has made the race to publish mathematical breakthroughs pointless, according to the Australian at the centre of an controversy this week involving one of the world's top AI companies.
Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government's proposed restrictions around energy and water use because the new rules are not expected to be retrospective.
