AFR AI Awards – Finalist

Honoured to be named a finalist at the #AFRAIAwards for our Responsible AI work at CSIRO’s Data61. ๐Ÿ™Œ

It was a fantastic night celebrating Australiaโ€™s vibrant AI community โ€” and inspiring to see so many collaborators, alumni, and peers leading the charge on impactful AI innovation.

At CSIRO, our ambition is simple: ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ. Just as brakes help cars go faster by enabling control, responsible AI unlocks speed and scale by building trust in deployment.

In many of our projects, we see promising AI systems stall โ€” not due to lack of potential, but because they struggle with edge cases or canโ€™t consistently meet performance thresholds in sensitive settings. Even when teams improve performance, those gains are often ad hoc, hard to retain, and difficult to generalise.

Thatโ€™s why our work goes beyond just safety โ€” ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐šโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ. Weโ€™re working with government and industry to bridge the last-mile gap between risk and performance, helping more high-impact AI systems move confidently into the real world.

Letโ€™s talk โ€” and letโ€™s get it done.


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