Two Banks Gave Cheques 30 or 40 Years. Most of Us Stopped Long Before.
Two large banks once told me the end of cheques was 30 or 40 years away, if ever. The government’s end date is 2030. Most of us had already stopped.
Still Running on 1569
The map on the classroom wall was drawn in 1569, and we were marked on how well we could reproduce it. Phil Whelan asked me the harder question on air: we can’t go through life re-examining everything, so how do we choose? Coffee is coffee and tea is tea. What varies is how far in you go.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
