Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE
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Reputably an "AI rock star". Though the only rock star'ish thing he's ever done is getting banned indefinitely from Russia.
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...
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Sadly I've been warning for a decade that we'd have to horrified by seeing such terror as this on our TV screens before we address the challenges of new (often AI powered) technologies for war www.nine.com.au/world-news/u...
Street vendor chased by ‘human safari’ drone in chilling footage
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has posted footage of a “human safari” drone attack on a civilian in Kherson.
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Join me in Mosman on 11th Sept for the launch of my new book, "God AI: boom or doom? What to expect when machines outsmart us". events.humanitix.com/toby-walsh-g...
Book Launch: Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh Author of God AI
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Join me and Bill for a conversation about when machines outsmart us, and my new book "God AI: boom or doom?". Sept 10th, Rose Read Bookshop in Summer Hill. events.humanitix.com/god-ai-launch
God AI Launch
Celebrate the launch of God AI: Boom or Doom? What to Expect When Machines Outsmart Us with Toby Walsh in-conversation with Bill Simpson-Young.
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Will machines outsmart us, and what happens when they do? Join me for a conversation around the launch of my new book as we tackle what lies beyond human-level AI. Sept 9th in Penrith. Tickets on Humanitix: events.humanitix.com/in-conversat...
In Conversation with Toby Walsh
Join us at Harry Hartog Penrith as we welcome Toby Walsh who will be discussing God AI: Boom or Doom? What to Expect When Machines Outsmart Us.
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Churn, not crisis, for UK science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Churn, not crisis, for UK science
When Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom’s prime minister last week, among his first acts was to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), folding it into a new supermin...
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Does China’s latest AI model finally equal US rivals? What scientists think www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Does China’s latest AI model finally equal US rivals? What scientists think
‘Kimi K3’ can match or outperform cutting-edge models, says Moonshot AI. But its large size might limit uptake.
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Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-...
Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize?
Artificial intelligence is already having a huge impact on research, and the technology is advancing so quickly that some suggest it could soon be capable of directing its own research programmes. But...
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OpenAI uses melodramatic language here. "the agents ... escape. Once outside ... " The reality is that the model simply found a bug to evade the limitations preventing access to software systems/data outside the sandbox. The AI didn't "escape". www.bbc.com/news/article...
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
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Australia's PM says he's putting AI at the centre of government with the new Office of AI. The UK has, however, made an even stronger commitment by appointing the first Minister of AI and made it a full cabinet position. How about this Albo? ua.news/en/world/u-b...
The U.K. has appointed its first minister for artificial intelligence
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the minister responsible for artificial intelligence. For the first time in the country’s history, this position has been elevated...
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We can build our own sovereign AI capabilities .... www.innovationaus.com/the-sovereig...
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WA police facial recognition trial launches with a real-time arrest – and backlash over privacy
Live video feeds can scan hundreds of faces a minute, instantly cross-referencing their profiles. But critics fear false alerts, algorithmic bias and ‘function creep’
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South Korea is offering its citizens unlimited AI chatbot access. Given the PM of Australia is interested in AI now, how about this for Australians? Back of envelope calculation suggest you could have a decent model for under $50M/year. korben.info/en/south-kor...
South Korea wants to offer free, unlimited AI to every one of its citizens - Korben
South Korea is about to attempt a bet no one has dared before. The country wants to give every one of its residents free, unlimited access to an artificial ...
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AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up
Digital people are fulfilling roles from running hospitals to giving lectures to offering companionship.
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Where’s the beef? PM misses the mark on local AI www.innovationaus.com/wheres-the-b...
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AI at Work – Toby Walsh on the skills AI won’t replace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R07b...
The Business Of AI & Jobs with Scientia Professor Toby Walsh, UNSW
YouTube video by UNSW Business School
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Great AI researchers we have here in Australia. cacm.acm.org/careers/rock...
Rockets, Poems, and AI: A Curiously Winding Path – Communications of the ACM
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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...
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Devil is in the details ... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/w...
Australia to Impose Energy and Water Guardrails on Data Centers Amid A.I. Boom
The country will also seek to protect the rights of creators of work used to train artificial intelligence models, as it aims to impose parameters on the growing industry.
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“We Must Act Now”: Sixteen Nobel Laureates Join Leading Economists and AI Researchers in Call to Prepare for AI’s Economic Transformation. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/wemusta...
“We Must Act Now”: Sixteen Nobel Laureates Join Leading Economists and AI Researchers in Call to Prepare for AI’s Economic Transformation - Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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