On 10 December, You Have to Say It Out Loud
From 10 December 2026, Australian organisations must publish in their privacy policy what their automated systems decide about people. Most can’t produce that list, and the obligation isn’t about AI.
Outputs, Not Inputs: What I Said in 2016, and What 1,178 AI Researchers Just Confirmed
In 2016, at a keynote in Perth, I said the real question was never the technology. It was outputs, not inputs. Ten years later, the researchers building the world’s most powerful AI just confirmed it, in a letter to their own governments.
The Checking Tax
77% of leaders spend nearly as long verifying AI outputs as generating them. The Checking Tax is the invisible cost in every AI business case — and Decision Trust Zones is the governance fix that closes the gap.
We Didn’t Just Automate the Jobs. We Removed the Years.
AI isn’t just automating entry-level tasks. It’s removing the developmental years that built professional judgment. The pipeline doesn’t just thin at entry — it thins at every point downstream. Here’s what’s actually at stake and what organisations can do about it.
What Is the HUMAND™ Framework? Morris Misel’s Human + Machine + AI Decision Model
HUMAND™ is a decision framework created by foresight strategist Morris Misel to answer one of the most pressing questions in organisations today: which work should be done by humans, which by machines, and which by AI? The framework takes its name from its five components: Humans, Machines, AI, Navigation, and Design. Together, they form a […]
