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- AU Financial Review
Tech Council warns against new AI laws, seeks plan for energy demands
The Australian Tech Council has urged against developing new AI laws, saying they would risk curbing innovation and that the government should instead work within current frameworks and establish a national digital advisory board to prepare the country for AI's energy demands.
The council's submission to this week's Economic Reform Roundtable follows its president and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's recent appearance at the National Press Club. He urged the government to consider relaxing iron-clad copyright legislation that prohibits the scrapping of existing intellectual property – such as film, television, newspaper articles and books – to train large language models.
