Dr Kylie Pappalardo from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) at QUT has been selected as one of 20 experts to join the Federal Government’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Reference Group (CAIRG) steering committee.
The copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) reference group has been established to better prepare for future copyright challenges emerging from AI.
Dr Pappalardo brings research experience in how automation, digital distribution, and intellectual property laws shape the reach and diversity of our culture.
“I’m very much looking forward to working with the Steering Committee on the next big challenge for copyright law and policy – generative AI,” said Dr Pappalardo.
“The Attorney-General’s Department has brought together a great group of people to tackle the tricky questions in this space.”
AI gives rise to a number of important copyright issues, including the material used to train AI models, transparency of inputs and outputs, the use of AI to create imitative works, and whether and when AI-generated works should receive copyright protection.
The reference group will be a standing mechanism for ongoing engagement with stakeholders across a wide range of sectors, including the creative, media and technology sectors, to consider issues in a careful and consultative way.
It will complement other AI-related Government initiatives, including the work being led by the Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic on the safe and responsible use of AI.
The establishment of the group is an outcome of a series of roundtables held by the Federal Government throughout 2023, with more than 50 peak bodies and other organisations raising issues of copyright reform.