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1. The University in an Age of Abundant Intelligence – Power
After Scarcity: Rethinking the University in the Age of AI This article is part of a four-part Frontiering series exploring what happens to higher...
The Most Important Skill in an AI World? Intent.
AI can execute almost anything. The scarce skill is knowing what should be done — and articulating a brief that preserves human purpose, judgement and responsibility.
Open AI, Closed Power? A Critique of Zuckerberg’s The Future Is for Everyone
Open AI, Closed Power? A Critique of Zuckerberg’s The Future Is for Everyone. I am simply not convinced that giving everyone access to a model answers the question.
Because the deeper question is not merely:
Who gets access to intelligence?
It is: Who gets to accumulate power around it?
Australia wants to lead on AI. It should start by making life work better
Australia should welcome an attempt to get ahead of the AI policy curve. But standards, data centres and new offices are only part of the job. The...
Today’s Memex: Building a Second Brain That Does More Than Remember
Memex or 2nd Brain Vannevar Bush imagined a machine that could extend human memory. Eighty years later, artificial intelligence is turning that...
Social Enterprise Brief: Evidence Is Becoming the New Currency of Impact
The social enterprise sector is entering a more demanding phase. It is no longer enough to be mission-led, values-aligned or locally trusted....
#WithHumanitiesYouUnderstand
#WithHumanitiesYouUnderstand Sure, with STEM you can. But with humanities, you can understand. CSIRO has a compelling campaign called...
When Values Become the Operating System
Lessons from Ashesi, UTS Sri Lanka and the future of international education. I have been reflecting on a photograph I took in Colombo. It shows the...
Humans at the Heart of Urban Technology: From Smart Cities to Learning Cities
Urban technology should not be judged by how many sensors, platforms or dashboards a city installs. It should be judged by whether people feel safer, move more easily, trust public systems more deeply, and have more agency in the places they live.
RUOK isn’t enough, we need to JOHARI-K
R U OK? Day gives us an important question, but the question only works when the relationship can carry the answer. The Johari Window helps us understand why honest disclosure depends on trust, feedback, and the slow work of knowing one another.
AI has not made assessment impossible. It has made weak assessment visible.
Generative AI has not made assessment impossible. It has made weak assessment visible. The real question is not whether students used AI, but whether our assessments still reveal judgement, intent, critique and learning.
A Referral Is Not Care: Why My Aged Care Needs to See Capacity and Capability
A follow-up reflection on My Aged Care’s capacity blind spot, digital exclusion, and the hidden work families perform to turn aged care approval...
From Builders to Buyers: What We Lost — and What We Must Rebuild
There is a photograph of my father in a Telecom depot workshop in the late 1970s. Steel benches. Coils of copper. Switchboards behind him like...
The Mental Cost of Thinking: Why Your Bias Patterns Matter More Than Your Traits
Most of us assume that better information leads to better decisions. It is a comforting idea: give people more data, clearer evidence, stronger...
From Scandals to Statutes: The Evolution of Accountability in the FIFA World Cup
Football is often described as a universal language of joy, identity, and belonging. Yet the governance of the FIFA World Cup has long told a more...
Naming Impact: Counting What Counts in Social Enterprise
Efficiency, perception, and the value of what we fail to measure In a lecture hosted by the Adam Smith Institute, Rory Sutherland offers a...