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Welcome to your twice-weekly look at how generative AI is transforming the way we live, work and play plus the latest news and analysis.

Meet the Melbourne university on a mission to integrate artificial intelligence into every activity.

Behind the shift toward the rapidly growing technology is Theo Farrell, La Trobe University’s new vice-chancellor, who isn’t shy to admit he’s a big fan of Microsoft Copilot which he uses to draft emails, summarise documents, produce minutes of online meetings and make PowerPoint slides for presentations.

“All universities are committed to preparing graduates for their futures. Increasingly these futures, their careers, will be reshaped by AI. So as universities what we actually need to do is we need to look right across our education, our research and, of course, our own operations, and look at how we need to integrate AI into everything we do,” he tells The Australian.

Meanwhile a Melbourne start-up has flown to Singapore this week to pitch Asian investors its voice cloning technology that can instantly translate videos in up to 40 languages, matching the new language to their lip movements to appear somewhat real.

Lastly, a group of employees at some of the world’s most powerful artificial-intelligence companies have penned an open letter claiming that they can’t voice concerns about AI’s threat to humanity because of confidentiality agreements, a lack of whistleblower protections and the fear of retaliation from their employers.

Let me know what you think — lynchj@theaustralian.com.au