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Australian anti-tech retreat focused on 'existential threat' posed by AI

By Saloni Sinha and James Panichi ( March 12, 2025, 02:51 GMT | Insight) -- A secretive anti-Big Tech meeting funded by Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and attended by Australia’s online-safety chief examined the “urgent need to provide support to regulators” in the fight against artificial intelligence, MLex has learned. According to documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws, the August 2024 AI Summit, attended by 32 unnamed national and international tech luminaries, discussed AI’s “existential threat” and its “system-level shifts that undermine human value, trust and culture.”An anti-Big Tech meeting funded by Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and attended by Australia’s online-safety chief examined the “urgent need to provide support to regulators” in the fight against artificial intelligence, MLex has learned....

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