The Detail: Our biggest brains on controlling AI
New Zealand business and tech leaders gathered in Auckland to discuss the implications of artificial intelligence on the local workforce and economy. Speakers emphasized the need for New Zealand to develop its own sovereign AI rather than relying solely on foreign-owned platforms.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing global tension between national digital sovereignty and the dominance of trillion-dollar offshore tech corporations.
Artificial intelligence - and how to take control of it - dominated a meeting of some of the country's biggest business and tech brains in Auckland.
On the same day that we heard of an 11-year unemployment high once again hitting young people the hardest, some speakers had brutal messages on how the globe was changing - and not in favour of school leavers or graduates.
"It's a shit show out there in the world," said Rochelle Moffitt, co-founder of the conference 'Revved. Engineering Change'. "We needed to bring the best of the best in New Zealand - the critical thinkers, the changemakers - so that we can really engineer change that we want to see for New Zealand."
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