Living with Modernism: Inside Rose Seidler House
Step inside one of Australia’s most celebrated modernist homes, discover the life & work of visionary architect Harry Seidler & some radical thinking of the Bauhaus
Nov 7 2026 MHNSW event 👉 mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/liv…
Byron Bay Writers Festival 2026 : A special conversation coming up : Bruce Wolpe and Prof David Heilpern | Oct 28 2026
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‘More than machinery, we need humanity .. More that cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities: life will be violent, and all will be lost.’
Charlie Chaplin
Final speech in ‘The Great Dictator’, 1940
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Intelligence is highly pluralistic. People can have high levels of it in one domain (maths, abstract reasoning) while being deficient in other domains (ethics, social interaction). When one kind of intelligence gets heavily socially valorised among all others, it encourages the arrogant assumption that this form of intelligence is dominant across all domains. We’ve been living with these distortions for some time with respect to the valorisation of quantitative and formal reasoning.
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There are people who leave a mark on the world, and then there are people who change it entirely. Steve changed the world and so many lives in the process. He certainly changed my life forever. His spirit lives on in everything he created and everyone he inspired.
ALT A photo of Steve looking at the camera wearing glasses and a black turtleneck.
Reasoning together ..
Jürgen Habermas, a great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind .. @aeonmag 2026 aeon.co/essays/habermass-the…
Antonio Canova : Mourning Angel with Shield and Lion, 1805 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni…
AI firms and developers are having to keep finding energy sources & raising cash for large data centres. They’re
• energy-hungry
• costly
Jensen Huang
First thing when deploying an Al agent:
Take away all its rights
Only then give it access to files, data, tools, the network (& internet only if it needs it)
Nvidia’s new OpenShell:
A force field around AI agents, provisioning rights, responsibilities & access.
Geoffrey Hinton, Al pioneer & Prof Emeritus at University of Toronto:
Controlling superintelligence may become nearly impossible. Our main challenge is to produce Al that cares about us humans.
‘Once Al cares more about itself than us, we're toast’ | Oct 2026
‘There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.’
Elie Wiesel
1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway 👉🏼 nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/…
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Pope Leo XIV said warnings about AI safety raised by researchers are not “fake news” as the catholic leader contradicted President Donald Trump’s stance on the matter and criticized Nvidia’s billionaire CEO Jensen Huang’s comments.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/siladityara…
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Anthropic IPO Prospectus Warns Its AI Could Pose ‘Existential Risks To Humanity’
go.forbes.com/Ih61hp
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose ‘catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,’
An extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology
Reuters Sept 28 2026 reuters.com/business/finance…
OpenAI, Anthropic & security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic
No. of recent AI incidents in internal testing & the real world: huge!
axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
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Nvidia says new tool can contain rogue AI agents in "milliseconds" axios.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-…
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OpenAI says it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/o…
