Etsy witches, Claude’s mythos, and the strange mood we are in
Etsy witches, constitutional AI, and rising geopolitical risk are all symptoms of the same restless zeitgeist.
Kate Carruthers
Australia’s data sovereignty ambitions will fail without research compute
Australia’s lack of serious, at‑scale compute is not just a research productivity problem, it is a sovereignty problem as well. Our universities are trying to do world‑class work on infrastructure that simply does not match the ambitions in our national AI strategies or data sovereignty rhetoric.
AI is now infrastructure: Why that changes everything
AI is no longer just a clever feature bolted onto apps - it’s fast becoming a core piece of digital infrastructure, as fundamental as electricity, networks and cloud.
Future of Education - why critical thinking matters more than ever
Most educators are rushing to adapt to AI without fully grasping its implications - are we teaching students just to use technology, or to critically engage with it?
AI Agents Are Here: How Memory, Emergence, and Governance Will Make or Break the Agent Era
The Agent Era Isn’t Coming. It's here and it’s Already Messy.
I spent an interesting evening at an agentic AI meetup with old friends Mark Pesce and John Allsop in the wilds of Waterloo in a brewery the other night. It really got me thinking about
What we need to think about for effective AI governance
People keep asking me: “What do we actually do about AI governance?”
Data Governance needs a rebrand
I have long thought that data governance has a brand problem. Inside many organizations it still sounds like control, cost, and constraint, not value. Even when the underlying work is critical, the label “data governance” often lands with executives as bureaucracy: steering committees, policies, and standards that slow things down.