Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE
@tobywalsh.bsky.social
Reputably an "AI rock star". Though the only rock star'ish thing he's ever done is getting banned indefinitely from Russia.
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making www.independent.ie/business/tec...
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making
In 1966, professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called Eliza. His intentions were noble, but the results shocked him.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making www.independent.ie/business/tec...
"Stan Grant makes the case for attentive silence in When Words Fail Us (NewSouth, May), while the techno-commentator Toby Walsh considers the force reshaping everything else in God AI (Black Inc, September)." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Australian books to look forward to in 2026: from a 278-page sentence to a memoir about a ‘cursed vagina’
It promises to be a marvellous year ahead for OzLit, with new books from the likes of Kate Grenville, Siang Lu, Antoinette Lattouf, Shaun Micallef, Judith Lucy and more
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January 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
"Stan Grant makes the case for attentive silence in When Words Fail Us (NewSouth, May), while the techno-commentator Toby Walsh considers the force reshaping everything else in God AI (Black Inc, September)." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
"Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim...our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs" arxiv.org/abs/2601.026...
Extracting books from production language models
Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
"Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim...our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs" arxiv.org/abs/2601.026...
In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the UNSW AI Institute, to break down what to expect from the tech in 2026. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
PM to announce Bondi Royal Commission + Your AI cheat sheet for 2026
Podcast Episode · The Briefing · 07/01/2026 · 19m
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January 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the UNSW AI Institute, to break down what to expect from the tech in 2026. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
AI in 2026 youtu.be/gaQsnndwW0E?...
[NEWS SPECIAL] USHERING IN 2026
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January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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The state of AI today (interview) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7Z...
S. Korea’s push to lead in the age of AI
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December 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The state of AI today (interview) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7Z...
The harms never end ... sadly www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death
Exclusive: Lawsuit is the first UK case of its kind, with Ros and Mark Dowey accusing Meta of ‘putting profit before our young people’
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December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The harms never end ... sadly www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Watchdog warns agentic AI is straining consumer laws www.innovationaus.com/watchdog-war...
Watchdog warns agentic AI is straining consumer laws
The spread of agentic artificial intelligence risks undermining consumer protections, Australia’s fair trade regulator has warned, calling into question recent Treasury advice about the impact of rapi...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Watchdog warns agentic AI is straining consumer laws www.innovationaus.com/watchdog-war...
Australia’s planned AI Advisory Body has been dumped www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-i...
Australia's planned AI Advisory Body has been dumped
The Australian government has scrapped plans for an AI Advisory Board as laid out in the 2024-2025 budget, adding to its list of abandoned AI plans.
www.smartcompany.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Australia’s planned AI Advisory Body has been dumped www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-i...
King of Cannibal Island www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
King of Cannibal Island www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Basically a free for all’: Robodebt expert’s warning on AI rules vacuum www.innovationaus.com/basically-a-...
‘Basically a free for all’: Robodebt expert’s warning on AI rules vacuum
The Albanese government’s new policy for AI use within government does little to reduce the risk of more automation scandals while economy wide regulation has been left to a "free for all", according ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
‘Basically a free for all’: Robodebt expert’s warning on AI rules vacuum www.innovationaus.com/basically-a-...
Australia’s productivity future hinges on AI workforce transition www.innovationaus.com/australias-p...
Australia's productivity future hinges on AI workforce transition
Australia’s ability to lift national productivity now hinges on how quickly it can build an AI-ready workforce, with leaders at the centre of the country’s skills and technology transition predicting ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Australia’s productivity future hinges on AI workforce transition www.innovationaus.com/australias-p...
Australia joins US-led AI supply chain alliance www.innovationaus.com/australia-jo...
Australia joins US-led AI supply chain alliance
Australia and seven other nations have signed onto a US-led artificial intelligence supply chain pact designed to accelerate investment in digital economies and counter China’s dominance. Australian o...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Australia joins US-led AI supply chain alliance www.innovationaus.com/australia-jo...
He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...
He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...
Australia’s digital capability moment lies in the shift to ‘AI agency’ www.innovationaus.com/australias-d...
Australia’s digital capability moment lies in the shift to ‘AI agency’
Australia is entering a defining phase in its digital transformation agenda as government and industry converge on a new national focus -- building genuine AI capability rather than chasing the elusiv...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Australia’s digital capability moment lies in the shift to ‘AI agency’ www.innovationaus.com/australias-d...
"The Shortest History of AI – Toby Walsh
Brilliant thinkers take massive topics and distil them into lively, digestible reads. Toby Walsh’s take on AI does exactly that. A perfect primer for all of us as we build our intelligent futures."
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Brilliant thinkers take massive topics and distil them into lively, digestible reads. Toby Walsh’s take on AI does exactly that. A perfect primer for all of us as we build our intelligent futures."
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Summer Reads for Reflection, Learning, and Growth | AgileAus Hub
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December 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"The Shortest History of AI – Toby Walsh
Brilliant thinkers take massive topics and distil them into lively, digestible reads. Toby Walsh’s take on AI does exactly that. A perfect primer for all of us as we build our intelligent futures."
www.agileaus.com.au/summer-reads...
Brilliant thinkers take massive topics and distil them into lively, digestible reads. Toby Walsh’s take on AI does exactly that. A perfect primer for all of us as we build our intelligent futures."
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This is your regular reminder that 10% of Meta' income ($16 billion/year) is fraud, .
Can you name any other legitimate business that promotes crime as much as this?
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Can you name any other legitimate business that promotes crime as much as this?
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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is your regular reminder that 10% of Meta' income ($16 billion/year) is fraud, .
Can you name any other legitimate business that promotes crime as much as this?
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Can you name any other legitimate business that promotes crime as much as this?
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Manias, Panics, and AI by Simon Johnson, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/fkFTLU3
Manias, Panics, and AI
Simon Johnson & Piero Novelli argue that the history of investment booms suggests three questions that should be asked of the current one.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Manias, Panics, and AI by Simon Johnson, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/fkFTLU3
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos. Pretty irresponsible if you ask me .... www.theverge.com/report/83797...
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos
We’re cooked.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos. Pretty irresponsible if you ask me .... www.theverge.com/report/83797...