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A new survey has found that senior business and IT professionals in Australia are more likely than their international peers to think data bias will become a bigger concern as the use of AI and machine learning increases.

The SAS chief technical officer Bryan Harris is on a personal mission. He wants humans at the centre of the innovation process, and he wants ethics in data. AI applied to healthcare and surgery may need to know someone’s gender and ethnicity, but AI applied to home loans should not use that as a factor at all. Harris is making clear irresponsible AI is right in his crosshairs.

The Australian Taxation Office plans to use data matching to crack down on Australians trading in cryptocurrencies and not paying the correct amount of tax.

A former employee of Indian IT outsourcing company HCL has filed a suit, claiming that the firm discriminates against non-Indian workers and games the American H-1B visa system.