The Innovate to Grow program’s next round has been launched. This program aims to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in advancing their cyber security and digital technology research and development. EoI is due 15 May. https://www.csiro.au/cyberdigitech Here are some quotes from me in the media release. βThe rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large…
𧩠How can investors and company boards/executives understand, evaluate, and report on AI risks and opportunities through the lens of the ESG framework? We are partnering with forward-looking equity fund manager, Alphinity Investment Management, to develop a world-first framework, linking CSIRO’s Data61‘s responsible AI risk assessment/mitigation methods with ESG factors and investor mindsets.π€ π It’s fantastic that…
What an incredible two-week trip to the US! Touching down in Silicon Valley, the centre of the storm, I could feel the excitement and apprehension surrounding foundation models/generative AI and the SVB/Tech layoffs. At the AAAI Symposium on AI trustworthiness assessment, I had the fun of sitting next to the US policy lead from the…
I was the inaugural lead of CSIRO’s National Mission on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience, which brought together a broad coalition of government and private sector stakeholders to help reduce disruptions to Australiaβs critical services and ensure we have the sovereign capabilities to protect the infrastructure that underpins our way of life. Find more information…
It’s been a great first day joining Australia’s AI delegation to Israel – the startup nation. No matter how much you’ve read about it, it never beats a deep conversation with the founders, the ecosystem nurturers and the researchers. Lessons of the day, from the philosophical to the technical: the need to fund high-risk AI…
I was thrilled at the NSW iAwards event the other evening – seeing two cybersecurity teams (collaborations between the Cybersecurity CRC,Β CSIRO’s Data61Β and industry/gov partners )named winners and going up to the stage twice with them (although I take no credit for the achievements!). Smart Shield’s anti-phishing technology is an exemplary human-centric machine-learning approach, leveraging human…
The Australian Government has a consumer data right (CDR) regime to increase the level of competition and breadth of services available to consumers. The CDR regime aims to make it easier, with the consumers’ consent, to have citizen dataβheld by banks, telecommunication companies, energy companies and similar organisationsβmade available to other, trusted third parties so…
