Cathy Foley expects her office will be asked to respond quickly to the potential policy issues raised by the new wave of sophisticated generative AI chatbots.
, and the transformative and disruptive effect it could have on internet staples such as Google search and Wikipedia., ChatGPT and its ilk also have other features with potentially complex policy implications.
Dr Foley said using an RRI report could be a “very powerful” quick response to the rapidly emerging challenges.“Where the government asks me a question, I go up to the research community, get the best and brightest to help me answer that question very briefly – 1500 words flat,” she said. Dr Foley said the government was well placed to manage policy and regulatory challenges arising from AI, with an E-Safety Commissioner in place and a report on AI ethics having already been produced by the Human Rights Commissioner.Tech companies can sometimes view government intervention as a barrier to progress and innovation. But Dr Foley said they needed to acknowledge and address the policy issues, because “eventually, it comes and bites them”.
“At the end of that research program we wanted nanotechnology to be a nothing, you know, people didn’t even think about it. And guess what? Now no one thinks about nanotechnology because it’s just embedded in everything,” she said.
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