AFR AI Awards 2026
Reflections from judging the AFR AI Awards on why proprietary evaluations, feedback loops and runtime controls often matter more than model choice.
Reflections from judging the AFR AI Awards on why proprietary evaluations, feedback loops and runtime controls often matter more than model choice.
Two national playbooks for responsible AI in Australian sport, and reflections on how AI can expand human learning while preserving understanding and accountability.
Final reflections from the AI Impact Summit on verification-first workflows, post-training learning, cross-domain synthesis and Australia’s opportunities in safe, system-level AI.
AI Impact Summit reflections on strategic autonomy, frontier commitments, real-world evaluation and opportunities at the intersection of AI, cyber and critical technologies.
How the redesigned NSW AI Assessment Framework narrows thousands of potential concerns into a defensible set of additional, AI-specific risks and evidence-backed controls.
Early signals from the 2026 AI Safety Science Report on model-level cost asymmetry, induced behaviours, scalable oversight and system-level risk propagation.
CSIRO Data61’s 2026 research directions in scalable oversight, meaningful human agency and cross-domain techniques that jointly advance AI safety and economic value.
Why AI-generated content guidance should assess potential impact and degree of AI involvement, rather than relying on unstable likelihood estimates or nominal human oversight.
A CSIRO Data61 partnership with the Audit Office of NSW explores responsible AI for public auditing and what established audit practice can teach AI governance.
As part of the international expert advisory group representing Australia, I’m pleased to see the second Key Update of the AI Safety Science Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, released (link in the comment). The official update captures the broad progress: more robust adversarial training, better AI-generated content tracking, wider adoption of frontier safety frameworks, and…

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