Sovereign AI in Australia | Simon Kriss Podcast

I spoke with Simon Kriss, CEO of Sovereign Australia AI, AI consultant, and expert in the field. We talk about the very urgent need to tackle genuine sovereign AI for Australia. And this applies to any nation in the world today without fully owned and operated AI infrastructure within their own borders. Besides defining the subject itself, we discussed what it would take in terms of building out the models, hosting them, and providing the expertise (tldr, we have world class experts educated and living in Australia right now). We discuss some of the businesses taking on this task and what government involvement might look like based on based on other countries such as UK. 00:00 Introducing Simon Kriss 00:37 What does sovereign AI actually mean? 03:51 Training data, inference and where your data goes 05:56 The “Made in Australia” AI problem 08:34 Defining sovereignty and the politics of AI 14:11 Who controls Australia’s AI off switch? 17:55 The economic, cultural and trust implications 21:09 Privacy breaches and holding AI companies accountable 25:01 Why Simon is building Australian AI 30:20 Investing in public compute 35:41 Australia’s AI talent and the brain drain 39:33 Why smaller AI models can make more sense 42:18 What would Australian foundation models cost? 43:50 Protecting personal data and improving healthcare 47:25 Copyright, training data and intellectual property 49:15 Paying creators: opt-in licensing and revenue sharing 57:57 What Australia needs to do in the next year 1:02:41 Australia’s untapped data advantage 1:04:06 What are we gambling with? More about Simon and Sovereign Australia AI: https://sovereign-au.ai/ Your host, Errol Schmidt, Tech Advisor: https://esquarenews.com.au Tech for Humans back catalogue: https://techforhumans.au