Sue Keay
@suekeay.bsky.social
Robotics | AI | Automation | R&D Leader | Board Director | Speaker | MBA | PHD Earth Sciences
The loss of expertise is staggering. The US is sacrificing its future under the Trump administration. 🧪
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
science.org
So Alex Honnold is free climbing Taipei 101 and my mum wants to know why he is not wearing socks.
Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI’s risk and complexity. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
Australian CEOs say AI isn't creating revenue gains
ROI, skills, and confidence elusive as worried execs invest trillions.
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The AI boom is driving major price hikes for consumer electronics as AI chipmakers take first dibs on critical memory hardware. 📈 Read more, including thoughts from RMIT University's @olegzendel.bsky.social and UNSW's @suekeay.bsky.social: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
Why the price of RAM is skyrocketing
Rising costs being 'passed through to customers'.
ia.acs.org.au
This should set off alarms. China didn’t just catch up in AI- it scaled faster, trained younger, and plugged itself into global research networks, including ours. This isn’t hype- ignoring it would be a strategic mistake. #AI #China #NationalSecurity www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...
China’s AI surge exposes America’s blind spot: research security
COMMENTARY | AI research matters more than ever.
nextgov.com
Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash
Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash
Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industries * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Productivity Commission has abandoned a proposal to allow tech companies to mine copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from the creative industries. Instead, the government’s top economic advisory body recommended the government wait three years before deciding whether to establish an independent review of Australian copyright settings and the impact of the disruptive new technology. Continue reading...
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🤖Do yourself a favour and listen to this podcast from Matt Bevan (ABC). In this episode Matt tackles the humanoid robot hype, the inherent technical challenges, and how our dreams for useful robot helpers has a long history of attracting grifters of all sorts. ❤️🦾 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
Where’s my robot butler?
Podcast Episode · If You're Listening · 03/12/2025 · 22m
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Data Dreams at MCA Sydney. Hard not to be enchanted by Anicka Yi’s Radiolaria, an otherworldly installation that felt alive with speculative intelligence. I could watch these all day.
Crikey's Anton Nilsson was one of several dozen journalists who traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to plan a global investigative series into the lobbying tactis of big tech. Here's how the project took shape.
Why we joined an international investigation into how big tech lobbying is rewiring the future
The influence of lobbyists on media and tech policy is no secret, but this project gathered reporters from across the world to compare notes on the tactics and talking points of big tech.
crikey.com.au
I had fun moderating the Emerging Technologies panel at #CAETS2025 in Brisbane, hosted by ATSE. 🌏 Inspiring insights from Sir Peter Gluckman, Dr Yuko Harayama, Dr Liang Zheng & Chandrakant Patel on shaping a sustainable future in 50 years. #AI #Sustainability #Engineering
And the winner of 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prize outstanding mentor of researchers is …. Michael Milford! Eureka prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social
Enjoying the anticipation at the 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Science and Innovation #eurekaPrizes with finalist for outstanding mentor of researchers Michael Milford with Therese Milford @eurekaprizes.bsky.social
How about we develop AI with integrity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/produc...
Productivity with Principle: Why Australia Doesn’t Need to Steal IP to Build Sovereign AI
During today's National Press Club address, Tech Council of Australia Chair Scott Farquhar called on Australia's Attorney General the Hon Michelle Rowland MP to change copyright regulations. "Australi...
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As @waltmossberg.bsky.social always said: The tech leaders are rapacious information thieves.
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last yr.Tech firms torrented millions of pirated books to train their AI models. Now authors are fighting back. My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The moment you realise it was a mistake to get up early and go to the gym
You know it’s a rough day when you turn up to the airport and can’t figure out which boarding pass to use as you are not sure what city you are in…
So there's a petition going around to hold Meta to account... might not get anywhere but if you've been banned it's a place to start: chng.it/KLKTP4BXrG
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Meta Wrongfully Disabling Accounts with No Human Customer Support
chng.it
Found myself standing up reading this: YES @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, absolutely my rural experience, all around us. The rhetoric, the shutting out. ‘The real conflict is not town v country, but money & power v people.’ ‘Never let powerful people tell you who you are.’ @righttoroam.bsky.social
An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Exploring life without Meta www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...
Digital Exile is the New Black: My Meta Misadventure and Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
There used to be a lot of different ways that people could connect with me but please know that you are no longer able to contact me via Meta Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads or Messenger for Bu...
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Talking AI and the Australian election with Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo on Channel 9’s Today Show. Should people be turning to AI tools like ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote? #AI #AIPolicy #DemocracyAndAI #AustraliaVotes2025 #ElectionIntegrity #DigitalLiteracy #UNSWAI #AIandPolitics
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“The Great Dunny Hunt is on!” Win 1 of 3 $500 vouchers. www.continence.org.au/great-dunny-... This updates one of the Australian government’s greatest achievements, the National Public Toilet Map and the app. toiletmap.gov.au You have until 11 May. Please repost.
The Great Dunny Hunt is on! | Continence Health Australia (formerly the Continence Foundation of Australia)
Welcome to the 2025 Great Dunny Hunt! Update the details of your local public toilet for your chance to win one of three $500 cash cards!
continence.org.au
I was interviewed by ABC news radio about the latest Grattan Institute report on #mathematics #education this afternoon 👉🏼 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
'Faddish' teaching practices blamed for Aussie kids' maths failures
One in three Australian students are failing to reach proficiency in maths, and according to a new report, many teachers lack the confidence to teach it.
abc.net.au
bsky.app/profile/call... perhaps we can longer rely on the security promises made by the free world
CALL TO ACTIVISM@calltoactivism.bsky.social · last yr.This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
Our keynote speaker @suekeay.bsky.social takes the stage, talking about emerging trends in robotics and AI! #DDDMelb
