AI Impact Summit – Day 2
AI Impact Summit observations on durable business value, participatory governance, rigorous evaluation and the enduring human role of curiosity and judgement.
AI Impact Summit observations on durable business value, participatory governance, rigorous evaluation and the enduring human role of curiosity and judgement.
Day-one reflections on sovereign AI strategy, India’s layered digital infrastructure and the durable meta-skills needed beyond short-lived prompting techniques.
Questions brought to the AI Impact Summit about system-level capability and risk, the durability of AI engineering advantages, and access to inference-time compute.
How the redesigned NSW AI Assessment Framework narrows thousands of potential concerns into a defensible set of additional, AI-specific risks and evidence-backed controls.
Early signals from the 2026 AI Safety Science Report on model-level cost asymmetry, induced behaviours, scalable oversight and system-level risk propagation.
CSIRO Data61’s 2026 research directions in scalable oversight, meaningful human agency and cross-domain techniques that jointly advance AI safety and economic value.
Why the real leverage of coding agents comes from redesigning work around automated, scalable verification rather than accelerating workflows that leave humans as the bottleneck.
Why AI-generated content guidance should assess potential impact and degree of AI involvement, rather than relying on unstable likelihood estimates or nominal human oversight.
A CSIRO Data61 partnership with the Audit Office of NSW explores responsible AI for public auditing and what established audit practice can teach AI governance.
As part of the international expert advisory group representing Australia, I’m pleased to see the second Key Update of the AI Safety Science Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, released (link in the comment). The official update captures the broad progress: more robust adversarial training, better AI-generated content tracking, wider adoption of frontier safety frameworks, and…




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