Oct 9, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
With four straight days of hearings this week of the Joint Select Committee on AI, the difficulties facing decision makers have become more apparent. How these complexities will be resolved…
Justin HendryHost
James RileyHost
So I was in the office here watching, I think it was News twenty-four, might have been ABC, and they crossed live to Jason Kwan giving evidence to this joint select committee.
Yeah, there's a lot of, um, hype in the lead-up to his appearance at the committee on Tuesday, and obviously, that follows the Medicare breach or incident hack as much of the media have been sort of describing it, but incident is probably more accurate.
That took place in June and obviously came out a couple of weeks ago when the PM made the shock reveal in New York, and he was here to sort of explain and apologize that they'd already done that, but he was here to do it again.
Had flown in from the States to do so, and there weren't exactly fireworks, I would say, during the, the committee.
I mean, he apologized, and then there were some more details about, uh, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, not being aware of the incident when he spoke with the Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, a couple of months back.
Made some comments around the need for the governments and the private sector more broadly to uplift their systems and, and make sure that they're aware to the, the new reality that AI can find these vulnerabilities very easily.
So yeah, in many ways, it was a pitch to use their technology more than anything else.
There was an all sorts mentioned during that, and that was just one session on the first day.
So who else did we have through the week? It seems like they were looking for a broad range of stakeholders, and they seem to have got that.
So I was in the office here watching, I think it was News twenty-four, might have been ABC, and they crossed live to Jason Kwan giving evidence to this joint select committee.
Yeah, there's a lot of, um, hype in the lead-up to his appearance at the committee on Tuesday, and obviously, that follows the Medicare breach or incident hack as much of the media have been sort of describing it, but incident is probably more accurate.
That took place in June and obviously came out a couple of weeks ago when the PM made the shock reveal in New York, and he was here to sort of explain and apologize that they'd already done that, but he was here to do it again.
Had flown in from the States to do so, and there weren't exactly fireworks, I would say, during the, the committee.
I mean, he apologized, and then there were some more details about, uh, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, not being aware of the incident when he spoke with the Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, a couple of months back.
Made some comments around the need for the governments and the private sector more broadly to uplift their systems and, and make sure that they're aware to the, the new reality that AI can find these vulnerabilities very easily.
So yeah, in many ways, it was a pitch to use their technology more than anything else.
There was an all sorts mentioned during that, and that was just one session on the first day.
So who else did we have through the week? It seems like they were looking for a broad range of stakeholders, and they seem to have got that.
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