🤔 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒇 𝑨𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓—𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔? 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏? At the NZ Government Data Summit, I shared three important, often overlooked insights from real-world AI deployments:– AI alone…

A great day at the WWW conference where I had the chance to present at the special event on 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. A central, and perhaps contrarian, view I shared: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬. Increasingly, humans will converse with agents, and those agents—not humans—will interact with the…

I had the pleasure of joining the IEEE Early Career Program Summit 2025 panel on “Bridging Academia and Industry in Computing.” It prompted me to reflect on two lessons I wish I’d learned much earlier in my career—because the conventional wisdom I heard early on turned out to be deeply limiting. 🔻 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄 #𝟏: “𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭…

I gave a lecture at an Executive MBA course on the interactions between regulations and standards in AI, data, and digital technologies—both globally and in Australia. Here are the key takeaways. I highlighted potential solutions to these challenges, including ongoing efforts in Australia to develop AI safety standards that are currently being established. Dropbox slides…

🎉 Kicking off the new year with a big topic – “Europe’s Path in Artificial Intelligence”. I had the privilege of joining a stellar panel organised by Fraunhofer, with an online audience of ~500. I shared Australia’s AI regulation status, including the pivotal role of the Voluntary AI Safety Standards in accelerating AI adoption with…

🔥 Excited to have joined the AJCAI panel on responsible and safe AI, focusing on operationalising Australia’s AI Safety Standard! As a key author of the standard, I shared some insights about the motivations behind it and how it fits with other international standards. Here are a few key points: 🛡️ AI Safety Standards: 🤖…

It’s my great honour and pleasure to deliver the opening keynote at the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024. https://ajcai2024.org/ 🎙️ In this keynote, I reflected on the journey and challenges of trustworthy AI: from models to systems to agents. 🚀 Although you might be familiar with much of the work CSIRO’s Data61 do…

Just wrapped up my talk at the DAIRNet AI Symposium 2024, diving into Generative AI and its applications in cybersecurity and decision-making. Great discussions and a thought-provoking exchange of ideas! Slides: Dropbox Link

📚 It’s incredible how much has changed in just a year! When I delivered the opening talk at last year’s Generative AI for Government Summit, we were still experimenting cautiously and exploring the technology’s potential. This year, in the second installment of the conference, I had the chance to share CSIRO’s Data61 lessons learned from…