Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper

Assoc. Prof, ANU National Security College (+ Bond University Law). Constitutions | Space | Security | International law | Human Rights | Cross-Border | Climate

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

https://t.co/0VqRKS611T

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

@juliettemm Yes. And I also agree with Jaako.

[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

Le président de la Corée du Sud critique la détention de Sud-Coréens présents sur la flottille par Israël, et songe à adopter un mandat d'arrêt national contre Netanyahu en plus du mandat d'arrêt de la CPI.

https://t.co/jdXOUHClvi

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

The images we have seen posted by Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir - who Australia has sanctioned - are shocking and unacceptable. We condemn his actions and the degrading actions of Israeli authorities towards those detained.

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

And we're off! @GriffLawSchool

[Gabriel @gabriel_horwitz]

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something.

Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it.

André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation.

Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test.

The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing.

This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it.

Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone.

The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start.

You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

What is China's approach to extraterritorial jurisdiction? Co-authored this one in the Australian Journal of Asian Law with Brendan Walker-Munro

https://t.co/PBXx5r4JIa

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

Who owes human rights obligations in #space? Thanks to Dan at the Lowy Interpreter for the invitation to pen this one! https://t.co/ILG8cWExQr
#extraterritoriality #law #space #humanrights

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

What are the legal implications of the term "common security" in the 'Jakarta Treaty' (between Australia and Indonesia? Thanks to @ANZSIL Perspective for the invitation to write this short piece and to @DavidMAndrews for writing it with me.
https://t.co/c0Kj5G9bXp
@NSC_ANU

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

@DavidMAndrews @ANZSIL @NSC_ANU Always a pleasure working with you, David.

[David M. Andrews @DavidMAndrews]

In a small foray into inter-disciplinary co-publication, I have a piece out today with @ANZSIL on the Australia-Indonesia Treaty on Common Security ("the Jakarta Treaty") alongside my @NSC_ANU friend and colleague @IrelandPiper. (1/2)

[Sarah Joseph @profsarahj]

I’m not in favour of a criminal offence but will they be hounded like Yasmeen Al-Maggied by Newscorp? She tweeted; they disrupted a dawn service

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

This is sound and sobering analysis. But, I'd add one caveat. History has shown that highly ideological authoritarian regimes which ossify into rigidity ultimately lose the flexibility to shift in response to internal or external challenges. The only outcome then, is rupture. The Islamic Republic used to exhibit some ideological flexibility via its reformist/hardliner paradigm. A complete takeover by hardliners, in train prior to and now accelerated by this war, could ultimately lead to breakage.

[Rory Medcalf @Rory_Medcalf]

Steps forward, playing catch-up, questions unanswered on alliance and preparedness - my initial take on Australia’s 2026 National Defence Strategy @NSC_ANU @smh

https://t.co/LVc2YzHK5y

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

This. Show us the PhDs, the years of peer review, the genuine curriculum development expertise, and the countless hours of pastoral care for students. No wonder the sector is in disarray.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

The number of 'thought leaders' with only a bachelor degree who have been made 'professors' at Australian universities is just another feature of how the system is rotting from within. A public profile or a successful career in another industry is not commensurate with academic expertise (even though it might be great for student recruitment, university PR)

[ANU National Security College @NSC_ANU]

📢 Australians share a sense of national #security risk – but which risks matter most depends on where you live.

Drawn from the our Community Consultations Report, this interactive map offers a quick snapshot of how people across Australia’s states and territories perceive different #threats – and what they think about #preparedness and #resilience.

🔎 See how your state compares: https://t.co/bPCoxZ3DnL

💡 Read more on page 89 of our Results Report ⬇️
https://t.co/SmMMLQzJVM

[Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper @IrelandPiper]

https://t.co/MM1nRftmoz

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

don't want to be mean-spirited, but I'm just not convinced that an April Fools' Joke is a stupendously useful addition to the already festering blancmange of lies and disinformation within the modern social media ecosystem

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

We have just endured the 11 hottest years on record.

When history repeats itself 11 times, it's no longer a coincidence. It's a call to act.

Climate chaos is accelerating & delay is deadly.

The way ahead must be grounded in science, common sense & the courage to act.

#ActNow