Expert opinions on Digital Democracy

The following practices are mapped to Australia’s 8 AI Ethics Principles, demonstrating how governments can practically apply them to their assurance of AI. [...] Governments should identify and consult with stakeholders, including subject matter and...

We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.

The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...

I have grave concerns that banning technology until it is legislated will choke innovation, it will drive genuine use cases away, and as technology is always developing, are we not in danger of ‘tomorrow never comes’ when it comes to legislation keep...

About 1,400 citizens applied, and we randomly selected 200 of them to participate as members of the evaluation panel. [...] Ultimately, 185 citizens participated.

If you are able to prove that I did an AI video of you robbing a bank when you were running for office, and I didn’t have a disclosure, I could be fined and face up to two years in jail.

You can say dishonest things whether they're AI or not.