Growing majority of Australians believe AI creates more problems than it solves

October 15, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 15-Oct-25

Research from Roy Morgan shows that Australians are increasingly concerned about artificial intelligence, with 65% (up 8% points since 2023) believing that "overall, AI creates more problems than it solves"; just 35% (down 8% points) now say AI "solves more problems than it creates". Meanwhile, 25% of Australians believe that AI presents a risk of human extinction in the next twenty years, up from 20% in 2023. Women are more sceptical about AI than men, with 69% of women compared to 61% of men believing that overall, AI creates more problems than it solves. By age, Australians aged 35-49 are the least sceptical, with 62% saying AI creates more problems, while older Australians aged 65+ are the most sceptical at 68%.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Google inks first commercial AI news deal in Australia

August 20, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 20-Aug-25

Newswire service Australian Associated Press has secured a content deal with Google regarding the latter’s generative artificial intelligence platform. AAP’s news articles will be made available to the Gemini AI app. Nic Hopkins from Google says the deal with AAP will deliver a feed of real-time information to enhance responses in the Gemini app and will assist Australians when they look for locally relevant and up-to-date information. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS PTY LTD, GOOGLE INCORPORATED

Security ban for DeepSeek AI

February 5, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Ben Packham
The Australian – Page: 1 & 6 : 5-Feb-25

The Department of Home Affairs has issued a protective security order which bans the use of DeepSeek on all federal government devices. Every government department and agency has been directed to remove the artificial intelligence app from their systems and devices, prevent future access to the app and report compliance with the order to Home Affairs. The total ban follows an assessment by intelligence agencies that the software poses an "unacceptable risk" to national security. Chinese short-video app TikTok was banned on all federal government-issued devices in 2023 due to similar concerns.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS

‘Don’t panic over DeepSeek national security threat’

January 30, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Tom McIlroy, Andrew Tillett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 5 : 30-Jan-25

Former Australian Signals Directorate executive Simeon Gilding has downplayed concerns about the national security implications of China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot. Gilding contends that Chinese-made electric vehicles are a bigger security concern, given that they "suck up data" and send it back to China, where it could potentially be accessed by the Communist Party. He adds that it is too soon to consider banning DeepSeek in Australia, but says this could change if China’s security services start trying to imbed the technology into critical infrastructure and services.

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AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS DIRECTORATE

Deep end: big tech’s disruption

January 29, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Ben Packham
The Australian – Page: 1 & 2 : 29-Jan-25

Science Minister Ed Husic says it is too early for the federal government to determine whether China’s DeepSeek AI platform is a potential national security risk. He says the government will take advice from national security agencies on the potential threat posed by the DeepSeek chatbot. US technology investor Marc Andreessen has described the latest version of DeepSeek as "AI’s Sputnik moment". However, Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Justin Bassi says the West was never reliant on the Soviet Union’s economy or its technology in the way it is with China; he adds that Western governments and companies acted after the Soviets launched the Sputnik artificial satellite in 1957, and similar action is required now.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF INDUSTRY, SCIENCE AND RESOURCES, AUSTRALIAN STRATEGIC POLICY INSTITUTE LIMITED

Artificial intelligence final nail in coffin for creative sector

July 17, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 9 : 17-Jul-24

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has expressed concern about the impact of artificial intelligence technology on Australia’s creative sector. The MEAA has told a Senate committee that Australian creatives’ work is being "systematically scraped" to train AI platforms without their knowledge, consent or compensation. Amongst other things, the MEAA contended that AI firms should be legally required to disclose all data used to train their algorithms. Singer and songwriter Dr Rod Davies warned that AI could kill off Australia’s music industry.

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MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE

Publishers fear Google AI search will kill their sites

June 18, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Paul Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 21 & 23 : 18-Jun-24

Google is using AI to create summaries of content from publisher web sites to answer search queries, rather than the actual web site link. It has claimed that summaries encourage, rather than discourage, readers to click on publishers’ websites, but publishers and media experts have dismissed its claim, while research by US-based Future Media has also cast doubt on Google’s claim. Private Media CEO Will Hayward comments that tech firms are known for making bold statements that do not pass the "sniff test", and that "Australian journalism can’t wait five years to see if what they’ve claimed turns out to be true".

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PRIVATE MEDIA PARTNERS

‘Out of control’: Meta has Whitlam as our No.1 PM

April 23, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Jared Lynch
The Australian – Page: 4 : 23-Apr-24

Shadow communications minister David Coleman has criticised Meta Platforms after it released the latest version of its artificial intelligence tool. When asked to rank Australia’s best prime ministers, the Meta tool listed Gough Whitlam first, despite the former Labor leader being the nation’s only prime minister to have been sacked by the governor-general. Malcolm Turnbull was the only Liberal prime minister in the AI tool’s list of the nation’s top five leaders. Coleman has accused Meta of either "deliberate bias or gross incompetence". Former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger says the results demonstrate a "strong left wing bias" at Meta, and show that technology companies should be regulated in the same way as conventional media.

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META PLATFORMS INCORPORATED, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

AI will turbocharge economy

July 19, 2023roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Noah Yim
The Australian – Page: 2 : 19-Jul-23

Tech Council of Australia and Microsoft have released a report which highlights the potential economic benefits of generative artificial intelligence technology. The report estimates that a rapid take-up of AI could boost the domestic economy by up to $115bn a year by 2030; a slower deployment of AI would boost the economy by around $45bn annually over the same time-frame. The report adds that the economic benefits of AI would primarily be derived from improving existing industries and enabling the creation of new products and services.

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TECH COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, MICROSOFT AUSTRALIA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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