Kim G

Independent public policy, AI, health, cybersecurity, privacy, governance & accountability. I follow the evidence, connect the dots and build what’s missing.

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Victoria’s Big Build is finally getting the scrutiny it should have had years ago. I built this tracker to make the projects, budgets, cost overruns, delays and electorates easier to see in one place. Now, as the Royal Commission examines what happened across Victoria’s major infrastructure program, I’ll be building the accountability layer on top of it. The Royal Commission will investigate what happened. The Big Build Tracker shows where to look.
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#springst #BigBuild #royalcommission @BenCarrollMP @evmulholland

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@PeterPerthWA Usual suspects. I prefer MWM and Punters Politics amongst other independent outlets for my news. Note the obvious exception in that list - News24. They are their own headline.

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Not weird, just indicative of positioning. The new CEO wouldn't have five seconds to met with this individual. Meanwhile, Tim Cook has plenty of time on his hands now lol. Including pushing Apple's 'we are safe' message despite them behaving quite atrociously in this regard. OK to blame parents and ban kids, and apparently OK to sell second hand products as new lol.

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@CleistaCelestia You think? The researchers have been trying to warn us about this for years - I refer the first paper on the topic which was released late 2024. The world chose not to listen, the world now must suffer the consequences.

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"Strong and intuitive controls" is a product feature, not a duty of care. Australia's proposed Digital Duty of Care Bill would put the onus on platforms by default - not on parents to find the settings. Curious whether Apple is engaging with that framework, or running the safety line for a photo op.

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5. Foreign interference is alive and well and should be taken seriously, but we do not need Russia or China to explain every fracture in our politics when we are capable of feeding those fractures ourselves.

#Democracy #Disinformation

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1. Yuri Bezmenov's "ideological subversion" theory gets quoted constantly online as proof that he somehow predicted whatever political development someone already dislikes. I don't think that is especially useful; the documented mechanism is more interesting.

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4. Democracy depends on much less exciting work: reading legislation, tracking lobbying, checking procurement, making submissions, following the money and asking whether regulators actually enforced the law. Slower, yes, but that is where accountability comes from.

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@Mon4Kooyong The cost doesn’t stop with pensioners. Older Australians already sit in hospital beds for weeks or months waiting for aged-care places, clogging hospital queues. Policies that make private care less affordable risk pushing even more demand onto an already-strained public system.

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@DavidPocock Exactly. Access isn’t just whether a specialist exists - it’s whether you can get in, afford the gap and maintain continuity. I’m preparing an inquiry submission now using 20+ years of records showing how delay, cost and fragmented care push patients out of treatment.

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@DavidPocock Exactly! The problem is the governance lag: capability moving exponentially faster than policy. I lodged a submission today to the Senate Joint Select Committee on AI - we need guardrails, independent evaluation & international coordination, now.

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6. “Whoever wins AI wins” is the wrong framework.

If the technology escapes effective human control, geopolitical victory becomes irrelevant.

This needs international coordination now, not after the next capability jump.

#AIGovernance #AISafety #NationalSecurity

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1. The AI debate took a disturbing turn this weekend.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for the frontier to slow down.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed.

Donald Trump’s response: the risks “won’t happen” and “whoever wins AI wins.”

That is exactly the problem.

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5. This morning I lodged a submission to Australia’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence through Sovereign Acumen.

My core argument: the governance cycle is now slower than the capability cycle it is trying to govern.

That in itself a security risk.

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What's unfolding with Thom, Buckmaster, and Alpöge isn't a series of isolated disputes. It's a pattern: private human work absorbed into AI models, the AI gets the credit.

And the math theft is just the visible end of something larger. AI companies are physically buying books, slicing off their spines, scanning them, and destroying the originals - sometimes the last copies in existence. A US federal judge ruled this "fair use" in 2026, which has effectively given every AI lab a legal incentive to destroy evidence of what they consumed. One bad ruling has industrialised the erasure of human intellectual heritage.

AI is not discovering or creating. It is extracting - from mathematicians who spent decades on a problem, from authors who spent years on a book - and the people who built these systems are calling it a breakthrough. We should be furious.