So who are some of the headliners from that class? That'll be in Tuscaloosa this weekend.

Yeah.

Alabama is going to what Alabama fans are going to see with 28.

It's going to be totally different than 27.

It's going to be more on the pace of the, 26 and the 25 class were for both top five classes.

I think they're ranked number two in the nation right now with a handful of commitments and they're bringing in Tyler Boyd.

He's a big one, a couple of big names from Georgia, five stars, Tyler Boyd, a quarterback, five foot 11, one 90, you know, the Bama boards making a joke.

When could the next one be?

What are you trying to achieve?

okay so from the outset i should say that uh yeah i can't speak on behalf of this newly formed joint select committee on on artificial intelligence in australian parliament i'm i am just a member of the committee and we haven't begun public hearings yet let alone deliberations so let me qualify that i would say before our first uh private meeting in parliament last week uh the chair joe brisky and the deputy chair senator john o'donoghue they held a joint press conference together in parliament house outlining their intent to use the committee to shape the development of AI in Australia in the national interest, but I think importantly, to enable the parties of government to come together in that committee process to try and land, if not a consensus, a shared set of values or an approach.

Now, as a committee member, I certainly share that objective and I look at the members from across the parliament in that committee with a lot of respect and looking forward to working with them.

So what's it doing? I mean, as we've just discussed, AI has emerged as a unique challenge for policymakers.

It's technically and economically complex, rapidly evolving.

And even in the near term, there's a wide variance of potential outcomes.

So the future is highly uncertain.

How are you thinking about what sovereignty means in the case of AI? Is the main concern pressure from another country or is it simply that decisions taken elsewhere could leave Australia without access to important capabilities? How are you thinking about this as the committee's work rolls out?

So, Tim, what are the expectations for the first game, and do we expect him to come out swinging?

I think Alabama fans do.

We've waited a long time to see this.

They've talked about it.

It was hyped up.

It was a quarterback battle.

He's a five-star quarterback.

What have Alabama fans been missing here? Yeah, there's

Yeah, I mean,

look, one of the big topical conversations between parents, teachers and students at the moment is what skills should students be investing in in this AI age, where we know that AI is going to change workplaces, change businesses, change markets in such a fundamental way.

When I think about that, I think about, okay, well, what are the parts of jobs? What are the parts of businesses that can't be automated by AI, right? So I look at symbol to symbol direct translation.

Yes, AI can be pretty good at that, actually.

Anyone that's used Google Translate features, the photo translate features can see that if you're ordering a train ticket when you're on holidays, if you're trying to buy a drink at a bar, those symbol-to-symbol translations are pretty good.

What AI can't and will never be able to replace is the ability to build human relationships of trust and understanding.

So to really be able to understand an individual, their cultural context, what is shaping the way that they are operating.

And if government implemented your top recommendations tomorrow, how quickly do you think businesses would start to see some results? What do you think would show up first?

What would you like to see happen? How are you, how are you creating a long-term focus across state and federal to deliver on this stuff?

Well, I mean, one thing that's different about this report compared to all [laughs] of the previous reports on Asia capability we've had going back decades now, um, is that those reports, you know, were about the future.

Um, this report is about the moment now.

Um, so you know, we are really on a burning platform at the moment, and the consequences of generations of governments kicking the can down the road in our education system means that the current government is, is currently facing the bill.

You know, we have, we are confronting that immediate reality of Indonesian studies going extinct in the next term of the Parliament.

You know, this is not a, a future consideration.

If we wanna do something about this, it, it really requires a commitment to making a choice.

I mean, Kevin Rudd, of course, was a great advocate for language training in schools back in his day, and you know, there've been other surges of it, so.

So how many wide receivers is Bama looking to sign in 2027? And where do you think they go for them?

You know, I think that's to be determined based on the senior years.

Usually what Alabama's done, if you've noticed since Kalen DeBoer's got here, they've signed a big name guy, Ryan Williams, Derek Meadows.

They've committed Osani Gale's.

And then they've taken a guy lesser known that they try to bring in and then they recruit, try to let him play up, play into his potential.

And then they take a portal guy.

They've had Jeremy Bernard, Noah Rogers this past year, last year, Isaiah Horton.

So that being said, who is Bama trending for when it does come to those top 2028 targets?

Tim, do you feel like Alabama has some ground to make up on

Indiana this weekend? I do is a month ago or so that he took his official visit to Indiana, kind of odd April official visit, you know, you kind of wonder what they were doing, but they were obviously setting the bar, self pitching him really hard, probably didn't have a huge visitor weekend.

So he got a lot of attention.

And a lot of love.

I've never felt that like Bama was a lot for this guy, just because his nickname was Bama.

I thought you got to go a little bit deeper in the NIL age, you know, than nicknames.

But I think he likes Alabama, but he hasn't visited that often.

Who else would you consider the headliners of the weekend?