Mr. Sean Blanchfield:

I thank the Senator for her question on how to balance leading an AI start-up company with being on the council, particularly with a view to ensure fairness and to prevent marginalisation in communities.

Most of what the start-up company is working on is to make AI more rules-based and to feed it standard operating procedures appropriate to the situation which are auditable. That is specific about our company; who knows if we will win or lose or still be here in five years? More broadly, I hope that my role on the AI advisory council is an opportunity to help start a serious conversation about the potential severity of the impact of AI on us. I have gone back and re-read my Marx. That is an appropriate thing to do under these circumstances. There is a lot of potential disruption that could affect society in this. It is an arms race between nations, essentially. Anything we can do to have a serious conversation such as this one is an impact with which I am happy to help.