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Today's Topics:
1. Re: How can Local Government use AI to improve services?
(Tom Worthington)
2. Rebuilding the public service with AI (Tom Worthington)
3. Re: Rebuilding the public service with AI (Roger Clarke)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:53:47 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] How can Local Government use AI to improve
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On 7/25/25 14:24, David wrote:
> ... decision-makers had better be well aware of its' fiscal & environmental
> costs, its' limitations & constraints, and its' inherent legal traps for
> over-eager players. ...
Those are certainly things I sure will be pointed out to the ACT Government.
> In other words, an AI machine is neither intelligent or responsible despite
> the mnemonic, it "hallucinates" and can produce nonsense or legally
> misleading output, or in short, it's a machine.
Yes, AI is a machine, with limitations. The question is where can it be
put to use with what sort of controls.
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:31:55 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] Rebuilding the public service with AI
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Greetings from the AI Colab at the Australian National University in
Canberra, where I am taking part in "From red tape to algorithm:
Reimagining the public service in an AI age". I the first group activity
we came up with an interplanetary travel system with a punk ascetic.
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/rebuilding-public-service-with-ai.html
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:20:58 +1000
From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]>
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On 28/7/2025 10:31, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Greetings from the AI Colab at the Australian National University in
> Canberra, where I am taking part in "From red tape to algorithm:
> Reimagining the public service in an AI age". I the first group activity
> we came up with an interplanetary travel system with a punk ascetic.
> https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/rebuilding-public-service-with-ai.html
I think you're confusing ascetic monks with punk aesthetics
(which, to an old fuddy-duddy, is a wonderful oxymoron).
I'm wondering where the 'public service' is in 'interplanetary travel'.
Garbage collection?
SpaceGuard?
Internet infrastructure, e.g. relays on planets, moons, asteroids?
Surely they're all subcontracted to Elon Musk already.
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Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected]
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Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
Visiting Professorial Fellow UNSW Law & Justice
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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