Open weights, closed exits: the next AI lock-in problem
Open-weight models offer more choice, but not necessarily more control. For Australia, AI sovereignty depends on capability, governance and the ability to leave.
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AI is changing the tempo of cybersecurity
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, but finding flaws is only the start. Recent vulnerabilities discovered expose the real challenge: can organisations fix problems fast enough?
AI is getting smarter, but is it becoming intelligent?
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that we are building increasingly capable AI systems we cannot fully explain or reliably monitor. Yann LeCun argues that language fluency is not intelligence. Both may be right, and that is where the future gets interesting.
AI in schools: Australia should choose learning before automation
AI is already entering Australian classrooms. The question is whether it will support learning, or allow students to outsource their thinking.
If we cannot specify it, we cannot govern it
AI systems are increasingly trusted to act, not just to answer. Our ability to check what they can actually do has not kept pace. Formal methods will not give us certainty, but they can force us to say precisely what a system must never do.
How transformers changed AI forever
The Transformer did more than improve language models. It made it possible to train AI systems that understand context at extraordinary scale, laying the foundations for today’s large language models and generative AI.
The skills we need in the AI age
AI skills are more than better prompting. We need people who can use AI well, design agentic workflows, govern risk and build the technical capability Australia needs.