Gov Showcase NSW Panel: AI Is Changing Data Governance
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 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.
The UN AI panel’s preliminary report recognises CSIRO research on meaningful human oversight and verifiability-first engineering for trustworthy AI systems.
Reflections from judging the AFR AI Awards on why proprietary evaluations, feedback loops and runtime controls often matter more than model choice.
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.
Key messages from the Aus Gov Data Summit on bounded uncertainty, evaluation as system design, system-level controls and meaningful human roles beyond routine oversight.
Scalable AI means reducing the marginal friction of each new use case through verification-first design, context-specific risk assessment and reusable technology and assurance foundations.
A framework for where Australia can lead in the AI stack, from post-training and domain grounding to supervisory AI and trusted infrastructure.




Dr Liming Zhu FTSE
Research Director, CSIRO
Conjoint Professor, CSE UNSW
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