Professor Liming Zhu

It was a great pleasure to deliver 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗖𝗠 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. Recent reports such as OpenAI’s GDPVal and METR show that AI systems can now autonomously perform complex doing/solving tasks and often surpass human experts on…

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗜 (𝗚𝗣𝗔𝗜) 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘆?• What if it isn’t just another “general-purpose technology” like computing, but a bundle of many specific-purpose technologies out-of-the-box?• And what if calling AI a “capital investment” is also a category error—when in reality it behaves more like inexpensive labour? Yesterday at the Cost-Benefit…

Just sat down with the latest episode of The Institutional Edge: Real allocators. Real alpha. — and this one hits right at the crossroads of technology, investing, and sustainability. Angelo Calvello speaks with me about why AI’s ESG impact is so hard to measure and what investors can realistically do about it. We dig into…

I never imagined I would one day share a speaking session — and a speaker room chat — with the 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵. Thanks to the Zoho event in Sydney, that happened. Speaking right after Hugh Watson Australia’s Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology also added a valuable global perspective to…

I was glad to join the 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁’𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸, contributing to discussions on both AI and cyber. The event was buzzing with energy, sharp questions, and concrete use cases being shared. On cybersecurity, my key messages were:1. You don’t need to copy-share data everywhere—doing so only increases the attack surface. Analytics and compute…