Can the government really get ahead of the curve on AI? - podcast
On Wednesday, the Labor government announced environmental and energy safeguards on new datacentres in Australia. Our political editor, Tom McIlroy , speaks to the assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, Dr Andrew Charlton, about the government’s push for national standards on datacentres. The former Rudd staffer and economist speaks about having his own book scraped by Anthropic, low public trust in AI, and how the government wants to use regulation to balance risk a
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Published: 7 August 2026
Source: The Guardian
Category: News
Topics: Regulation · Jobs & economy · Environment
Retrieved: 7 August 2026
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