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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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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 32m
AI: the hope and the hype. www.royalsoc.org.au/events/rsnsw...
RSNSW and Learned Academies Forum 2025. AI: The Hope and the Hype - The Royal Society of NSW
Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025, 8.30 am for 9.00 am – 5.00 pm AEDT Venue:  Government House, Sydney: in person by invitation, and live-streaming Program: Brochure (5 MB pdf) Entry: […]
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 3h
Madness www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 3h
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat
Ready, set, cheat.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 3h
China’s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...
China’s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 3h
The future of shopping is AI ...
Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4h
AI policy quagmire drags Australia to its lowest digital rank www.innovationaus.com/ai-policy-qu...
AI policy quagmire drags Australia to its lowest digital rank
Australia has tumbled out of the top 20 most digitally competitive nations for the first time after a lack of AI policy and complacent companies dragged on global rankings for technology and future re...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4h
bigthink.com/books/logic-...
Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics
Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4h
bigthink.com/books/logic-...
Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics
Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 16h
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 1d
Very handy to nip into Bunnings for some extra parts ....
Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 1d
Not clear if we'll ever get the far too expensive nuclear submarines, but the autonomous ones are starting to roll off the production line here in Sydney already. www.navalnews.com/event-news/i...
Anduril Ghost Shark Factory Launches In Sydney
Anduril has launched its Ghost Shark factory responsible for manufacturing the XL-AUV for the Royal Australian Navy at an event in Sydney.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 1d
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Film Premier: “Iterations” OMNI AI Film Festival | City of Sydney - What’s On
OMNI International AI Film Festival is offering viewers and participants a glimpse into the future of AI created cinema.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 1d
Coming soon for my Dutch readers ....
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 2d
Please join me in Bathurst on 21st! bathurstlocals.com.au/an-evening-w...
An Evening with Professor Toby Walsh
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 2d
Who's winning the AI race?
Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 4d
"No more vague promises that “AI will solve the climate crisis.” Amazon must implement a public plan that includes: 1) powering all data centers with 100% additional, local renewable energy 24/7, 2) ending custom AI solutions for oil & gas companies .." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter
AI Open Letter — AECJ
Sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Every single signature makes our message stronger.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 5d
Time to post a good news AI story ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
In Senior Homes, A.I. Technology Is Sensing Falls Before They Happen
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 5d
We've got to the madness of autonomous underwater nuclear weapons www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ukraine war briefing: Putin boasts of nuclear-driven torpedo that would swamp cities with radioactive tsunami
Russian president proclaims test of Poseidon which would launch from submarine and carry nuclear engine and warhead. What we know on day 1,345
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 6d
"If the company really has strong reason to believe it’s ready to bring back erotica on its platforms, it should show its work. People deserve more than just a company’s word that it has addressed safety issues. In other words: Prove it." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 6d
Does consciousness emerge from feeling and not thinking? www.wired.com/story/ai-sen...
AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness
Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something.
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 7d
They will be AI powered drones soon. At this point, it is the science fiction dystopia we warned you about. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ukraine war briefing: Russian drones hunt civilians in crime against humanity, UN inquiry finds
Ukraine strengthens Pokrovsk positions amid infiltration by estimated 200 Russian troops; Lukoil selling overseas assets after US sanctions. What we know on day 1,343
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 7d
“Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.”

No way is it safe to relax ChatGPT5's inadequate safeguards, despite what Sam Altman. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 7d
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 9d
People are worried about the water usage of AWS. It turns out "The wider Amazon group ... has an overall water consumption that is far higher [10x more than AWS], 105bn gallons per year."

So it's Amazon, not AWS that we should fix! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
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Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @tobywalsh.bsky.social · 10d
thefutureofai.blogspot.com/2025/10/ai-a...
AI and war
[The text of a speech I presented to a webinar of the  Inter- Parliamentary Union  (IPU)] I’ve spent the last decade lobbying governments a...
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