Australia must move up the AI ‘value chain’ to capture maximum value from the technology: Andrew Charlton

Australia must move up the Artificial Intelligence (AI) value chain rather than simply hosting data centres, the Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Andrew Charlton, says. In a lecture to be delivered at the ANU Crawford School Tuesday titled “Why Australia Needs to Turn Compute into Sovereign AI”, Charlton argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth for the broader economy. Charlton has given the…