Morning Mail: Hanson’s daughter faces scrutiny, Alzheimer’s anxieties, and AI’s ‘surreal’ Joycean dialect

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter. Morning everyone. Our exclusive top story reveals how Pauline Hanson’s daughter has been working from Tasmania for a NSW One Nation senator without the required ministerial approval for remote working.A minister in Victoria has accused a datacentre operator of using AI to lobby her about planning, social media is fanning anxieties about Alzheimer’s, and some AI models have created a strange, Joyceian language that could hinder oversight. After his double win, Emmys champion Matthew Rhys pays tribute to his Welsh roots.Exclusive | The Victorian jobs minister has accused one of Australia’s largest datacentre companies of using artificial intelligence while requesting she lobby her colleague to approve a massive expansion of its “hyperscale AI factory”.Exclusive | Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson, has been working in Tasmania as a senior adviser to a New South Wales One Nation senator without the required ministerial approval, Guardian Australia can reveal. The One Nation leader made a qualified apology after describing Indigenous Australians as the “most primitive race on Earth”. And our political editor asks whether the disdain for experts on show as One Nation rolls out policy proposals means that she is pushing Australia towards a Brexit-style political culture.‘Catastrophe’ | The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation has been dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests the number was around 2.2 million before hundreds of thousands died in the “demographic catastrophe”.Alzheimer’s anxiety | Researchers have warned that social media may be misleading healthy people into taking Alzheimer’s blood tests, causing severe anxiety over biological markers that may never actually cause dementia.‘Pervert glasses’ ban | One of Sydney’s largest councils has joined the Brisbane and Yarra councils in issuing a ban on AI smartglasses at public pools as concerns mount over the potential for predators to exploit the new technology. Continue reading...