AI Impact Summit – Day 4
AI Impact Summit reflections on strategic autonomy, frontier commitments, real-world evaluation and opportunities at the intersection of AI, cyber and critical technologies.
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…
Every few weeks brings a new AI framework — but rarely one that genuinely helps organisations simplify. The National AI Centre‘s new guidance on responsible AI adoption, launched this week, is a welcome exception. It distils earlier guidance and complex international work into six clear, balanced practices that bridge governance intent with operational reality. We…
Cognitive overload, opaque automation, and AI surveillance are reshaping the modern workplace. I’m sharing some insights from my talk at the Safety Sphere, Australia’s leading HSE practitioner network, on “𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗦𝗘 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹-𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗜.” We examined how AI not only enhances productivity but also creates new health,…
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…

Dr Liming Zhu FTSE
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