I look forward to presenting at a workshop next Thursday, 4 September 2025, hosted by WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH) and Perth Machine Learning Group, on the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on “Harnessing Data and Digital Technology“.
I’ll be looking at the Artificial Intelligence issues covered in the Interim Report, with a particular focus on the Productivity Commission’s request for feedback on a high profile and controversial topic, the issue of copyright materials being used to train AI models.
If you have anything to say about this topic (or anything else in the report), this is a workshop where you get to write (and if you like, submit) your own conclusion!
Workshop outline:
- Introduction and overview of the Productivity Commission’s ‘Harnessing Data and Digital Technology’ Interim Report
- Machine Learning & the Copyright Act – should text & data mining (TDM) be made an exception to copyright infringement?
- Overview of other issues in the Interim Report – Data Access, Privacy Regulation, Digital Financial Reporting
- Submission process (deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025).
Date: Thursday, 4 September 2025
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM AWST
Venue: Curtin, 137 St Georges Terrace, Perth
Registrations essential via this link
