Professor Liming Zhu

Every confidential message you’ve sent may already be stored — waiting to be unlocked. This is the essence of the “𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗻𝗼𝘄, 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁-𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿” problem: data intercepted today could be decrypted once quantum computers mature. This week CSIRO’s Data61 released our new report, 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙢 𝙎𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙃𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨, mapping the scale of the challenge and…

What counts as a 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, really? From the strict sense in 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄—where a decision formally alters someone’s rights or entitlements—to the everyday sense where almost everything, from selecting a movie to choosing a candidate, feels like a decision. Yet across these very different contexts, the underlying anatomy looks surprisingly similar. In CSIRO’s Data61 new…

New paper alert (working draft)! “When you really understand what AI is doing, it’s no longer AI — it’s just boring automation.” That old AI community joke captures the paradox of human oversight. We trust calculators and complex business process engines with millions of if–else rules, running hundreds of steps, responding to environmental changes, and…