Australia has announced a national AI framework, new standards and an Office of AI. But for most businesses using AI rather than building it, the hardest governance questions remain unanswered and responsibility sits squarely with boards and executives.
We built AI from human data. The problem is that human data was never neutral to begin with. There is a framing that has taken hold in mainstream conversation about artificial intelligence, and it goes something like this: AI is dangerous because it might develop its own values, its own agenda, its own autonomous moral […]
Agentic AI has arrived. Across every session at the AI Agents Conference in Sydney, the same truth kept surfacing: the organisations that will deploy with confidence are not the ones with the biggest ambition. They are the ones with the clearest framework. I spent two days last week at the AI Agents Conference in Sydney, […]
Boards are asking about AI governance. Executives are experimenting with tools. Risk committees are stress-testing policies. Yet one of the most consequential questions about artificial intelligence is almost never raised in those conversations. Where does the knowledge inside these systems actually come from? And what does it mean for the decisions your organisation makes when […]
A recent viral prompt asks generative AI to create “an interpretive painting of my mental health as if it were hanging in a museum.” At first glance, it appears whimsical, creative, harmless. However, it reveals something far more significant about how humans are beginning to relate to artificial intelligence. The prompt does not ask for […]
The child safety conversation around AI is finally becoming concrete. For a couple of years, public debate has swung between hype about personalised learning and fear about runaway harms. Both instincts are understandable, but neither is sufficient. Children are already encountering AI everywhere, often invisibly and without meaningful choice. So the right question is not […]
(And Why Voluntary Guardrails Won’t Save You if You Get Them Wrong) Most Australian SMEs adopting generative AI are flying blind on risk. They’re plugging in chatbots, automating recruitment, deploying predictive analytics, and discovering the consequences only after a customer complaint, a data breach, or a regulatory query. The federal government’s voluntary AI guardrails, released […]
AI is on every board agenda. Yet across the conversations I’ve had with directors and executives this year, one question comes up more than any other: where do we start? The confusion isn’t about technology. It’s about accountability. Most leaders are still asking whether they need an AI strategy, when they should be asking what […]
Kylie Dalton, Chair of the Governance Institute Australia Ethics & Governance Experts Forum and CEO of the Back on Track Foundation, has released a suite of white papers and practical templates designed to help not-for-profits (NFPs) and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) harness the potential of artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively. With more than two […]
Digital transformation is a journey, not a destination, and 2024 is poised to be another promising chapter, continuing the breakthrough trends we have
