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AI proving ‘useful tool’ for submissions to parliamentary inquiries, Senate clerk says
Artificial intelligence is proving a “useful tool” for submissions to parliamentary inquiries, says Senate clerk Richard Pye, saying his department has been using the tech to analyse some submissions to inquiries to identify themes emerging from those contributing.
Pye said the Senate doesn’t use diagnostic tools to check whether submissions are AI-generated – after Liberal senator Richard Colbeck raised concerns about AI submissions potentially containing false information.
In a Senate estimates hearing this morning, Pye said there needed to be a “broader awareness” about people using AI to contribute to the Senate, but also cautioned against dismissing out of hand any submissions that had been generated using AI – saying the technology could help more people contribute to the parliamentary process who otherwise may not be able to make submissions.
Colbeck raised concerns about false information making its way into the Senate submission process, saying there should be tools to address that.
Senate president Sue Lines said it was a good point to make about AI, but asked genuinely whether other submissions were also screened for false information – with Colbeck conceding this wasn’t the case. Lines said AI-generated submissions should be “identified”, but said the same standards about accuracy should apply to all submissions, regardless of how they were generated.
Elsewhere in the Senate’s finance and public administration committee, Liberal senators Jane Hume and Simon Birmingham spent a large chunk of time asking about the Senate’s transition from a monthly pay cycle to a fortnightly pay cycle for senators.
ShareUpdated at 20.59 EDT24m ago20.36 EDTABC denies claim of board meeting over Laura TingleAmanda Meade
The ABC has dismissed claims by News Corp that the ABC Board held “emergency talks over Laura Tingle outburst”.
The chief political correspondent for nightly current affairs program 7.30 and the staff-elected director on the ABC Board, Tingle made some comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on the weekend which have been seized upon by The…
2024-05-27 19:44:01
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