AI in Government Panel: From Capability to Scalable Governance
Reflections from a panel on AI in Government during Innovation Month, focusing on capability, context-dependent performance, evidence-based assurance, and continuous governance.
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Internetware Keynote: Software is Dead. Long Live the Environment
Read more: Internetware Keynote: Software is Dead. Long Live the EnvironmentReflections from the Internetware 2026 keynote on AIWare, distributed intelligence, verification-first design, and the role of harnesses and environments in growing trustworthy systems.
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AI Safety Forum Keynote
Read more: AI Safety Forum KeynoteIt was a privilege to deliver the opening keynote at the Australian AI Safety Forum, bringing together researchers, industry and government to discuss the findings of the International AI Safety Report and what they mean for Australia’s AI safety future. My keynote argued that AI safety is entering a new phase. First, practical AI capability…
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UN AI Report Cites Our Work
Read more: UN AI Report Cites Our WorkWhat does the international scientific community see as the biggest opportunities, risks and governance priorities for AI? The newly released Preliminary Report from the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI provides one of the most comprehensive evidence-based answers to that question to date: https://lnkd.in/gYSZxUpy Congratulations to my colleague Qinghua Lu for leading the working…
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AFR AI Awards 2026
Read more: AFR AI Awards 2026As a judge for the The Australian Financial Review(AFR) AI Awards this year, I greatly appreciated the opportunity to review such a strong field of entries. The submissions highlighted not only the breadth of AI innovation across Australia, but also the significant impact organisations are already achieving at scale. It was a privilege to present…
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National Communication Museum AI Summit
Read more: National Communication Museum AI SummitReally appreciated that the National Communication Museum AI Summit (Thanks, Emily Siddons) brought together a privacy professional (Patricia Calabro), a psychiatrist/science-fiction writer (Grace Chan https://lnkd.in/gXtd6N-k) and me, an AI engineer/scientist, to discuss trust and automated decision making. Before the panel, I wandered through the museum and unexpectedly went down memory lane: childhood computers, old communication…
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Aus Gov Data Summit Panel
Read more: Aus Gov Data Summit PanelA great panel yesterday at the Aus Gov Data Summit. Here were my key messages. Why do we call AI a black box when we can inspect every parameter, activation, and optimisation step? The challenge sits with understanding. Even with full visibility, we still cannot explain why the system behaves the way it does. But…
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What do We Mean by Scalable AI?
Read more: What do We Mean by Scalable AI?At the recent GovAI Summit, I spoke on “Engineering Trustworthy AI at Scale: How CSIRO Enables Responsible AI Across Government.” I have given similar talks before, but this one was a bit different. I focused more directly on a question that is often misunderstood: What do we actually mean by scalable AI? Most discussions interpret…
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Where Should Australia Play in the AI Stack?
Read more: Where Should Australia Play in the AI Stack?Good panel discussion the Deloitte Connect event yesterday: “Why Australia? Conditions that cement us as a regional leader and exporter of AI.” Thanks to Joana Valente for moderating, and to fellow panellists Paul Grimes Belinda Dennett , and Rianne Van Veldhuizen for a thoughtful conversation. My contribution focused on a few questions/dimensions that may help…
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Responsible AI in Sport
Read more: Responsible AI in SportI’m very proud of two pieces of work we have released with our partner, the Australian Sports Commission: A Guide for Responsible AI in Sport and AI for Australian Sport. Together they form one of the world’s first national playbooks for how AI should be developed and used responsibly across the sporting ecosystem. The work…
