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.
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.
The Leadership Pipeline Isn’t Broken. We Deleted It.
We automated entry-level work and eliminated middle management in the same window. In doing so, we deleted the corporate classroom and the teacher. Here’s what arrives next, and why the organisations that feel most efficient right now may be the least prepared for 2029.
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.
In 2019 I Said Human First. Organisations Heard ‘Efficient Last.’
In 2019, I dedicated a year’s speaking to rehumanising technology and putting humans first. In 2026, organisations are eliminating the management layer that was supposed to make Human First real. The leadership pipeline consequences are arriving now.
Those Kindergarteners Are 19 now. 2030 Is Four Years Away. What’s Changed?
In 2016 I predicted that half of Australia’s kindergarteners would be unemployable by 2030 if education didn’t change. Those kids are 19 now. 2030 is four years away. Here’s the reckoning — what changed, what didn’t, and what needs to happen in the four years we have left.
