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Thousands of University of Sydney staff to strike over AI

Staff will stop work for 24 hours on Wednesday, partly due to concerns about the university’s “extraordinarily cavalier” approach to artificial intelligence.

Thousands of University of Sydney staff to strike over AI

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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