Sovereign by design: AI foundations for government
Three priorities for Australia’s sovereign AI conversation: a richer AI stack, meaningful access to frontier capability, and reusable assurance that supports confident adoption.
Three priorities for Australia’s sovereign AI conversation: a richer AI stack, meaningful access to frontier capability, and reusable assurance that supports confident adoption.
Three reflections from ASPI’s AI Masterclass on operational AI capability, speed as a security property, and solve-verify asymmetry.
Reflections on opportunities for French-Australian collaboration in foundational AI, system-level engineering, industrial modelling and sovereign capability.
Reflections from REMIX Summit Sydney on why understanding, rather than judgement or taste, remains an enduring human frontier as AI capability advances.
Reflections from two Tech in Gov sessions on sovereign AI capability, harness engineering, technological leverage, and supervisory human oversight for AI agents.
Reflections from the Government Innovation Showcase NSW 2026 on why AI is moving data governance closer to the point of use and into continuous technical controls.
Reflections from a panel on AI in Government during Innovation Month, focusing on capability, context-dependent performance, evidence-based assurance, and continuous governance.
Reflections from the Internetware 2026 keynote on AIWare, distributed intelligence, verification-first design, and the role of harnesses and environments in growing trustworthy systems.
Key themes from the Australian AI Safety Forum keynote: system-level capability, runtime verification, real-world evidence and continuous control for increasingly capable AI.
Reflections from the National Communication Museum AI Summit on social trust, simulated human communication, system-level controls and AI’s growing role in mediating interpretation.

Dr Liming Zhu FTSE
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Conjoint Professor, CSE UNSW
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