AI CoLab Workshop Insights
Insight Notes
Synthesised lessons from the AI CoLab workshop series. The cross-note syntheses are open to everyone; individual workshop notes open to AI CoLab Alliance allies after sign-in.
Recent notes
Cross-note synthesis · open to all
Building links between technical experts and reformers
Links form around translation artefacts, not introductions.
Read SynthesisLowering barriers to safe experimentation
What lowers the barrier is the social design of the session, not the tooling.
Read SynthesisRange and diversity of participants
The diversity that matters tracks the question being asked.
Read SynthesisUncovering barriers to practical collaboration
The barriers that bind are upstream of the technology.
Read SynthesisKey issues across the notes
AI's first proven value is translation: it makes gated or opaque knowledge legible.
Read SynthesisOpen questions across the notes
Who is accountable when a practitioner and an automated recommendation disagree?
ReadWorkshop notes
Is This Good Law? Verifying AI-Generated Legal Research
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How to Build Your Own Public-Facing AI Tool
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The Illusion of Objectivity: Auditing Political Bias in Commercial AI
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Designing for Humans: Putting Citizen Values at the Heart of Government AI
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Are Chatbots the Next Big Shift in Government Procurement?
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From Pilot to Production: How Fair Work Commission Crossed the AI Barrier
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Beyond the Hype: Strategic Foresight for an AI Future
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Getting Hands-On With High-Risk AI: A Case Study in Skills Measurement
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AI for Data Analytics
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Practical AI for Policy People
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People and Culture Leadership in the AI Age: What Matters Now?
This cross-sector session brought senior people and culture leaders together to examine what organisation-wide AI change now demands of their profession. Facilitated by Dr Jan Anderson and Chloe Hawcroft of People Measures, the workshop deliberately set aside…
Authoritative by Source, Secure by Design: AI in Practice
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AI for the Systems You Inherited
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Growing with AI: Practical Innovation in Agriculture
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Vibe Coding for Curious Humans
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Beyond the Principles: Applied AI Ethics for Real Decisions
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AI Adoption in Practice: People, Evidence, Action
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When the Algorithm Goes Rogue: Designing (and Surviving) AI in Welfare Systems
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AI Productivity in the Agentic Era
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Beyond the Black Box: A Statistical View of AI
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AI and the changing nature of information work in the public sector
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Tourism data, insight and the opportunity of AI
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AI and the geopolitics of compute
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Exploring the economics of transformative AI
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AI for Insight Notes
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Government information in the age of AI
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How AI Speaks Our Values: Language, Ethics and Model Behaviour
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AI in practice: Lessons and questions from local innovation
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Qualitative research in action with AI
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Human-AI teaming for people and planet
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Designing trustworthy GenAI with knowledge graphs
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AI Agents in Action
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AI Ready? Tools for Startup & SME Success
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Understanding AI Systems: A Foundation for AI Literacy
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From Ideas to Action: Exploring Amazon Bedrock for Human-Centred AI
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What's next for the Australian Government and AI? A futurist's tale
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Creating with AI: The WIC Image Equity Challenge
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AI for environmental stewardship
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Building better together: AI-powered citizen engagement in planning and development
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Unlocking career potential: AI for diversity in employment
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Copyright, IP and GenAI
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Rethinking the decision landscape in times of change
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Scaling and sustaining innovation in the public sector
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Macroeconomic implications of AI
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Auditing AI: independent oversight of public-sector AI
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Practical AI for risk professionals
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Ethical AI in health and research: global insights, local application
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LLM epistemology: what kind of knowledge does AI produce?
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Generative AI in government policy work
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Women in AI
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AI for problems humans can't solve
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SCOTi Flow: sovereign assistive intelligence for high-stakes work
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OpenSI-CoSMIC: an open framework for orchestrating AI
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AI and the future of the public service
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AI in recruitment
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OpenAI 101: practical AI tools in the public sector
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Clustering techniques with generative AI
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Document intelligence for governance
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Meta-cognition and deeper research
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IBM watsonx.ai and Granite open-source models
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How do LLMs behave in languages other than English?
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AI and national security
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The NSW Trend Atlas: strategic foresight for policymakers
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