Measuring the Machine
Australia’s emerging AI governance reality for law, policy and practice About this presentation These slides were originally developed to accompany a presentation delivered at Maddocks in April 2026. As a result, the slides are intentionally visual and contain only a Continue Reading …
And how can you apply this to your organisation? Most discussions about AI still assume a simple communication model: a prompt goes in, an answer comes out, and the answer is evaluated. This visual explainer argues that this framing is Continue Reading …
Cultural value drift in early GPT-3 and the case for pluralist evaluation of generative AI Published in Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics, this paper began with a deceptively simple question: when generative AI summarises a text, is it preserving the Continue Reading …
Why this matters for AI governance in 2026 System prompts sit at the centre of many current debates about AI safety, alignment, and governance. They are often presented as the hidden instructions that keep AI systems safe, helpful, and under Continue Reading …
Stop Hiring for Theatre. Start Hiring for Power. This visual explainer examines the changing role of AI ethics and Responsible AI practitioners in 2026. As AI systems become embedded in products, organisations, and public infrastructure, the question is no longer Continue Reading …
Australia’s National AI Plan is a solid start. There’s strength in the focus on opportunity, capability, and skills. We absolutely should be aiming high. But opportunity can’t be the whole story.If we want AI that’s safe, sovereign, and built for Continue Reading …
During my PhD, I spent years trying to articulate that relational quality. The result was a framework I call The Prompted Universe. It treats generative AI not as a container of stored meaning but as a probabilistic landscape where meaning is enacted through interaction. Continue Reading …
How to use GenAI responsibly: not as a ghostwriter, but as an Epistemic Partner Rebecca L. Johnson, The University of Sydney 8th July 2025 Using Generative AI (GenAI) as a work partner is no longer some distant horizon, it is Continue Reading …
A bizarre White House tariff formula may have come straight from ChatGPT. What does this mean for AI safety and democratic accountability? Penguins, Tariffs, and a Data-Driven Mystery On 3rd April 2025—Trump’s so called “Liberation Day”—the penguins of Heard Island Continue Reading …
What does this mean for users and democracy? On May 22, 2024, OpenAI announced a significant partnership with NewsCorp. There are significant risks here to consider. We have also seen the launch of Google’s Gemini-powered search; how does this relate Continue Reading …
Eleanor Campbell, Federal Political Reporter from the Canberra Press Gallery, quoted me several times in a piece featured in News.Com.Au “. . . With Australia heading into its own national vote by May 2025, the likelihood of deep fake content Continue Reading …
SCIMEX comments made on 6th Nov 2023. The full quote is here: SCIMEX Australia ‘at the back of the pack’ in regulating AI, experts warn The Guardian, Josh Taylor, 7th Nov 2023 (and other various outlets across the UK). Australia lags Continue Reading …
Using GPT4-Turbo to summarise AI governance docs and generate advice to the Australian government. Continue Reading …
Today, the Australian Science Media Centre released some short remarks from Australian AI experts on the Bletchley Declaration last week. Including a short remark from yours truly (though I’m not quite yet a Dr as the webpage indicates – a Continue Reading …
Course: “Leading in a Post Crisis World” Series: Research Connections I was delighted to be invited to give a lecture to postgraduate students undertaking a relatively new business leadership course. The course providers (including Craig Gilliver and Adrian Harms) have Continue Reading …
This sneak peek of some of my doctoral work simply explains the conceptual ideas beyond one of the chapters of my PhD thesis. The work looks at how bias can be embedded in evaluations of generative AI systems. I gave Continue Reading …
While AI Constitutions aren’t the ultimate solution for the GenAI value alignment problem, they make another valuable contribution to our evolving AI ethics toolkits. Nevertheless, as with all AI Ethics methods, we need to be mindful that there is no Continue Reading …
In June 2023, I was honoured to be included on one of the expert panels consulting to Australia’s Commissioner for eSafety on the topic of Generative AI (GenAI). In addition to a virtual panel, I was able to provide the Continue Reading …
I was invited to speak on a great panel on 14th July 2023 as part of a symposium run by the ADM+S Centre. The moderator was the wonderful Prof Flora Salim! The topic was “Modelling the Complex World with Generative Continue Reading …
19th July 2023 On the 19th July I convened a follow-up to the April ChatLLM23 conference. ChatRegs was a thinktank of invited experts that workshopped the questions in the Australian Government Feedback portal (closes today) on the future of AI Continue Reading …