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Losing faith in the system: distrust, AI, and the turn to alternative beliefs
Etsy witches, AI, & young people quietly returning to the Catholic Church might look unrelated, but they all signal a crisis of trust in institutions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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What we need to think about for effective AI governance
People keep asking me: “What do we actually do about AI governance?”
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Agentic AI: How Voice-Driven Agents Are Changing the Way We Use Apps
I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston back in June 2024 about AI, innovation and the future. I have been thinking a lot about this topic in the time since 2024 and now in early 2026. The future direction of Artificial Intelligence is not just
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AI, Cybersecurity and Sovereignty: Technology & Security Podcast
Was on the Technology & Security Podcast with the smart and lovely Miah Hammond-Errey just before Christmas 2024 - have been meaning to share the link. Miah and I had a great chat where we traced my path from defending shopping centre digital systems against cyber threats to building higher
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AI Innovation: Why leadership matters more than technology
In the history of business, technology has always been the driver of change, from stone tools to the internet. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is simply the most recent, and arguably among the most powerful, addition to this long line of technologies. However, like every revolutionary technology that came before it, its
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The future of AI is smaller not bigger
The future of AI will be smaller and not bigger. My take on where AI’s headed? Forget bigger, flashier, more bloated models. The future’s going to be smaller, smarter, and way more focused. This is especially with the advent of agentic AI, since this will be driving business
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Data Integrity & Compliance in an Australian Context
In the age of artificial intelligence, data integrity has emerged as the fundamental bedrock upon which reliable, trustworthy, and effective AI systems must be built. As organisations increasingly rely on AI to drive decision-making, predict consumer behaviour, assess market trends, and secure against data breaches, the importance of maintaining data
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What NEDs need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Expert Systems
By Kate Carruthers & Kobi Leins "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the first chatbot, 1964 What is AI? ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a term