Reflecting on a remarkable three-week voyage that began in Sydney and spanned across Europe and Southeast Asia, the journey was nothing short of transformative. Starting in Singapore, vital interactions with organizations like AI Singapore, A-STAR, HTX, NTU, and SMU centered on responsible AI, digital trust, and cybersecurity research collaboration. Paris, the city of lights, was…

A proud moment for our responsible AI engineering work. Congratulations to Qinghua Lu on clinching the Trailblazer Award of Women in AI Asia Pacific (APAC). This reflects the impact of her and the wider team. 📝 Research Breakthrough– the field-setting “Software Engineering for Responsible AI” roadmap paper https://lnkd.in/gFmPp6JB– the seminal works on reference architecture and responsible AI for foundation-model-based…

🧩 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.🤝 🗞 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 Australia’s 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, CSIRO’s Data61 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 data—held by banks, telecommunication companies, energy companies and similar organisations—made available to other, trusted third parties so…