When Trust Breaks Down in Organisations, It’s Never the Trust That Broke
AUSTRAC found the same names across unrelated loan files. When trust breaks down in organisations it’s never the trust that broke. It’s the layer nobody checks.
Nobody Argued About the Shark Drones
New South Wales now flies shark drones over around seventy beaches, every day of the year. The money arrived within days of swimmers being killed, and nobody argued, because the reason was too good to argue with. That’s how permanent observation actually shows up. The hard part of drones was never the flying, and the ripple effects land somewhere most leaders aren’t looking.
I Was Wrong About the Middle
A permit clerk in Washington DC decided last month that part of the public footpath now belongs to a commercial robot fleet. Nobody voted on it. No board paper was written. No strategy session preceded it. A clerk, doing a job, processed a form, and the street changed. I want to sit on that clerk […]
Same Data, Three Directions
The Reserve Bank held. CBA and ANZ read the same data toward different conclusions, and so did the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. Morris Misel on what happens to a decision when the institutions you’ve delegated judgement to stop agreeing.
We Funded the Bed, Not the Nurse. Now We’re Being Asked to Fund the Robot.
For about two decades Australia funded aged care by counting beds. Not nurses, not meals. Beds. We got exactly what we counted. Robots are now entering the same sector, and the funding question is live. A robot is easier to count than a bed, and the thing we actually want to buy is the hour of human attention it was supposed to free up.
Robots Are Already Working in Australian Aged Care. The Argument We Skipped Is the One That Matters.
Companion robots are already in Australian aged care and the national AI plan names them. Monitoring supports care. Companionship substitutes for it.
