AI in Education & Assessment
TAFETalks: Navigating Assessment and Integrity in the Age of GenAI
Dr Lenka Ucnik from TEQSA outlines national AI guidelines for Higher Education and their relevance for TAFEs. Dr Hayden Park and Dr Elly Thomson from Melbourne Polytechnic present findings on AI-generated feedback in teacher education, highlighting benefits, risks and practical implications.
Hypothetically Speaking: How AI Is Impacting the Education Sector
A panel exploring how generative AI tools are being implemented in K-12 classrooms and beyond. Considers the future of teaching and learning, new safety and security risks, strategies for equitable access to reliable tools, and approaches to security awareness training.
AI-Detector Systems Falsely Accusing Students of Cheating
ABC News reports on Australian schools using AI detection tools that are wrongly accusing students. Examines the flawed appeals process and the traumatic impact on students when detection tools get it wrong.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping College for Students and Professors
PBS reports on the first senior class to have spent nearly its entire college career in the age of generative AI. As the technology improves and becomes harder to distinguish from human work, it's shaking academia to its core.
Education in Transition: How AI Is Changing Teaching
AI tools are increasingly being used in schools. Does this make learning easier? Are young people being trained for the jobs of tomorrow? Or are they losing their ability to think independently and creatively?
How AI Is Being Used in Our Schools
ABC 7.30 explores how children in Australian schools are incorporating AI into the school day as companies in the US and China compete for dominance. Are they learning skills or asking AI to do their homework?
What Is A.I. Doing to Higher Education?
Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett discusses the existential threat that AI poses to the traditional humanities degree, and why he believes thousands of new schools will emerge outside the university system to carry on exploration of what it means to be a person in the world.
What You Must Know Before AGI Arrives
Carnegie Mellon's Po-Shen Loh presents a two-part lecture on education in the AI era. Covers why "creativity" alone isn't enough to stay ahead of AI, why thinking like a teacher is the ultimate survival skill, and how empathy and simulating the world are now essential skills.
Who Will Survive and Thrive in the New AI Era?
MIT professor David Autor explains why the key question isn't what jobs can be automated, but which tasks within a job are automated and who benefits. Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses whether AI will widen inequality or expand opportunity.
Using AI Tools & Practical Guidance
How I Use LLMs
An example-driven, practical walkthrough of Large Language Models and their growing list of features. A hands-on followup to a general audience series on LLMs, covering the many ways to use LLMs in everyday life.
I Put ChatGPT 5's 'PhD Intelligence' to the Test
A hands-on test of ChatGPT 5's capabilities, exploring its reasoning and problem-solving at a level OpenAI has marketed as "PhD-level intelligence."
Microsoft Copilot: Personal and Work Experiences Explained
An overview of how Microsoft Copilot works across personal and work contexts, and what the differences mean for everyday users and enterprise deployments.
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft's introduction to Copilot Chat within the 365 ecosystem, demonstrating how AI assistants are being integrated into the productivity tools many organisations already use.
Introducing Prism: A Free Workspace for Scientists
OpenAI introduces Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX-native workspace powered by GPT-5.2. Designed to reduce friction in day-to-day research by eliminating version conflicts, manual merging and mechanical overhead so teams can focus on the substance of their work.
Copilot Usage Reveals AI Adoption Patterns
IBM's Mixture of Experts unpacks Microsoft's Copilot usage report revealing AI adoption patterns. Discusses enterprise AI costs, the "Ralph Wiggum prompting strategy" for coding agents, and whether giving simple instructions beats micromanaging.
Understanding How AI Works
Explained: The Conspiracy to Make AI Seem Harder Than It Is!
Gustav Soderström demystifies how services like ChatGPT can write entire novels and how Stable Diffusion and Midjourney create images from text descriptions. An accessible explanation of how modern AI actually works.
Visualizing Transformers and Attention
Based on 3Blue1Brown's deep learning series, this talk uses clear visualisations to demystify transformer models. Explores the inner workings of attention mechanisms and multi-layer perceptrons, making the parallelisable nature of these models understandable.
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton
Jon Stewart is joined by the "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton to understand what we've created. They explore how neural networks and AI systems function, assess the current capabilities, and examine Hinton's concerns about where AI is headed.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on How A.I. Is Reshaping Google
Google DeepMind's chief executive discusses what his AI lab is building, the future of education, and what life could look like in 2030. A wide-ranging conversation from the Hard Fork podcast.
AI Safety & Cybersecurity
Don't Say No, Say How: Shadow AI, BYOD, & Cybersecurity Risks
Jeff Crume explains how blocking Shadow AI, BYOD, and cloud tools drives risky behaviours underground, leading to costly data breaches. Discover proactive strategies like vetted alternatives and risk assessments to protect your organisation.
Advancing AI Security: Insights from the World's Largest AI Red Team
Shares insights from the world's largest AI red team, discussing what gamifying AI red teaming can teach us about safeguarding AI systems. Covers preventing sensitive data leaks and system compromises without strong security mechanisms.
Agentic AI and Identity: The Biggest Problem We're Not Solving
Each AI Agent will have its own identity and attributes, and traditional cybersecurity frameworks aren't prepared for Agentic AI identity and access management. Employees will create Shadow AI Agents that may act autonomously, access sensitive data and trigger workflows; this talk explores solutions before Agentic AI becomes prolific.
DEF CON 33: Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings
Explores hidden risks in apps using LLMs and RAG workflows. Demonstrates how sensitive data like PII and social security numbers can be extracted through real-world attacks including model inversion and embedding inversion attacks on vector databases.
Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents (39C3)
Demonstrates end-to-end prompt injection exploits targeting computer-use and coding agents including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Jules and others. Covers remote code execution, exfiltration of access tokens, "ZombAIs" joined to command-and-control infrastructure, and AI ClickFix attacks.
Is ChatGPT Atlas Safe? Plus: Invisible Worms, Ghost Networks and the AWS Outage
Security Intelligence podcast discusses the security risks of ChatGPT's browser capabilities. Is a safe AI browser even possible? The panel examines the implications of AI-powered web browsing.
AI Browser Bans and the Top Software Flaws of 2025
Discusses Gartner's advisory warning organisations to ban AI browsers from the workplace. Explores the relationship between AI model providers and the cybersecurity community, including the spy ring Anthropic discovered and debates about threat intel sharing.
This System Could Help Detect AI Fakes If We Can Get Everyone Onboard
AI-generated images are everywhere, and the tools are getting better, faster and more accessible. The C2PA initiative has created systems to help tell what's real from what's fake and avoid being misled, but progress isn't going well.
Ethics, Society & Policy
AI: Law, Policy, and Common Sense Suggestions to Stay Out of Trouble
Explores the ethical, legal and policy considerations for AI implementation. Examines what governance structures and benchmarks can help maximise successful implementation and minimise potential risk as the law lags behind the technology.
Can You Teach Claude to be 'Good'? Meet Anthropic Philosopher Amanda Askell
Anthropic's in-house philosopher Amanda Askell discusses the newly released "Claude Constitution" and what it takes to teach a chatbot to be good. The Hard Fork podcast explores how AI personality and values are shaped.
What It's Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
An interview from Nairobi with Michael Geoffrey Asia of the Data Labelers Association. Data labelers are the people who train AI, often earning as little as a few dollars a day under algorithmic management, sometimes shown graphic content for hours. The association is fighting for better conditions.
'Let Me Just Read That Again': Hawley Reads Shocking AI Chatbot & Child Conversation
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley reads Meta's internal guidelines regarding its AI Chatbot's interactions with children. A confronting look at the child safety gaps in current AI systems.
Grok's Deepfake Disaster: Can Anyone Stop Musk's A.I. Chatbot?
Users of X are asking Grok to remove clothing from images of celebrities and everyday people, including children. NY Times reporter Kate Conger discusses the response from targets of this harassment and whether anyone will take action to stop it.
AI Trends & Broader Impact
We Have to Talk About Moltbook...
Moltbook, a Reddit-style web forum for AI agents, has captured the tech world's attention; over 1.5 million agents have contributed to 150,000+ posts. The Hard Fork podcast discusses what happens when AI agents interact with each other and what counts as "real."
Toy Hunt: A Discussion About AI Slop
A discussion about the growing problem of "AI slop"; low-quality AI-generated content flooding the internet, and how it impacts everything from consumer products to information quality.
The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers
404 Media reports on an organisation tracking AI data centre locations around the US and worldwide. Also discusses what Grok got up to over the holiday break and what the breakdown in the information ecosystem means.
Was Hank Green Right About the AI Water Problem?
Separates fact from fiction on AI water use. Does AI really drain our water supply, or is this a distraction? Also covers Australia's social media ban for children under 16 and how platforms lost the argument around child safety.