It has been a great honour to represent Australia on the Expert Advisory Panel for the International AI Safety Report, led by Joshua Bengio and backed by over 30 countries and international organisations including the EU, OECD and UN. This is the most important ongoing effort to monitor AI capability gains and safety risks of…

CSIRO’s Data61 latest research gives copyright owners and data producers a new superpower — the option to make their sensitive and sovereign data 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 by AI. It’s been getting some attention, with us appearing on ABC TV, 7 News, and 2GB radio to explain the technology. Unlike past “confuse the AI” tricks like data poisoning,…

🏆Our paper — “Toward Responsible AI in the Era of Generative AI: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model-Based Systems” has been awarded the Best Paper Award of IEEE Software 2024! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10553223 Although CSIRO’s Data61 often publish breakthrough research and win best paper awards at academic conferences, nothing beats being recognised by practitioners. The world-leading…

Congratulations to Sunny Lee (Finalist of AI in Law) and Amena Khatun (Winner of AI in Quantum)! What a night. These are our program’s third consecutive years of winning.

Honoured to be named a finalist at the #AFRAIAwards for our Responsible AI work at CSIRO’s Data61. 🙌 It was a fantastic night celebrating Australia’s vibrant AI community — and inspiring to see so many collaborators, alumni, and peers leading the charge on impactful AI innovation. At CSIRO, our ambition is simple: 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧…

🚀 What’s the hottest trend in AI agents right now?It’s not the traditional workflow-based or API-calling agents. The most interesting agents today are 𝗚𝗨𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 — ones that see what you see on the screen. They don’t just execute calls behind the scenes — they observe, interpret, and interact with visual interfaces just like human…

Did you know CSIRO’s Data61 open-source data catalog system, Magda https://magda.io/, powers data.gov.au and many other key infrastructure systems like national maps and digital twins across Australia — and we recently launched a new version of it with in-browser LLM integration? But our research and engineering team (Jacky Jiang Chen Wang et al.) has also…