David Pocock

This is not the kind of technology where you can just sort of do this ad hoc whack-a-mole, try and hit problems when they come up.

It's too fast.

And so a lot of the talk was around, well, how do we actually set some guardrails?

These are the things you can't use it for or develop it on and kind of shape where it goes.

Because I think there's a real lack of...

trust in these companies.

I mean, we look at what was promised with social media, right?

It hasn't turned into the utopia of online connection that we were promised and a lot of people thought it may be.

And I think we're right to be very skeptical.

So it's clearly a powerful technology.

I think there are

Huge potential upsides, but not insignificant downsides.

And I think it's the role of the parliament, or should be, to actually be looking at them and saying, okay, this is how we're going to deal with them.

We're going to actually have a plan and have some good legislation.

But at the moment, it's a bit of a let it rip approach.

And...

I don't know, it just raises so many questions from things like deepfakes, how they'll impact our elections, our society, to potential job losses.

Even to revenue.

Are these multinational AI companies going to pay tax here?

Well, yeah.