AI and Human Understanding
Reflections from REMIX Summit Sydney on why understanding, rather than judgement or taste, remains an enduring human frontier as AI capability advances.
Reflections from REMIX Summit Sydney on why understanding, rather than judgement or taste, remains an enduring human frontier as AI capability advances.
What happens when AI agents pursue our goals in ways we did not intend? A new piece on alignment, supervisory AI, layered controls and AI sovereignty.
Reflections from two Tech in Gov sessions on sovereign AI capability, harness engineering, technological leverage, and supervisory human oversight for AI agents.
Reflections from the Government Innovation Showcase NSW 2026 on why AI is moving data governance closer to the point of use and into continuous technical controls.
Reflections from a panel on AI in Government during Innovation Month, focusing on capability, context-dependent performance, evidence-based assurance, and continuous governance.
Reflections from the Internetware 2026 keynote on AIWare, distributed intelligence, verification-first design, and the role of harnesses and environments in growing trustworthy systems.
Key themes from the Australian AI Safety Forum keynote: system-level capability, runtime verification, real-world evidence and continuous control for increasingly capable AI.
The UN AI panel’s preliminary report recognises CSIRO research on meaningful human oversight and verifiability-first engineering for trustworthy AI systems.
Reflections from judging the AFR AI Awards on why proprietary evaluations, feedback loops and runtime controls often matter more than model choice.
Reflections from the National Communication Museum AI Summit on social trust, simulated human communication, system-level controls and AI’s growing role in mediating interpretation.




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