Will AI safety concerns hinder spending?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has received bad press in recent weeks. Major AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught hacking other companies and even the Australian government, ‘going rogue’ and leaving their testing environments in the process.Meanwhile, debates around the environmental impact of AI technology are heating up, with protests centred on data centres and their water usage.Some are calling for a pause in the technology’s development. But concerns around