Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE
@tobywalsh.bsky.social
Reputably an "AI rock star". Though the only rock star'ish thing he's ever done is getting banned indefinitely from Russia.
Think of dogs as 18 month old infants! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...
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February 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Think of dogs as 18 month old infants! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement | PNAS
AI is expected to reshape society and labor markets, yet experts remain divided on
whether AI will primarily displace human labor or generate new e...
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January 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Perceiving AI as labor-replacing reduces democratic legitimacy and political engagement | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
Grok showed a “complete failure” for some prompts.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
Books in Brief: what to read this February. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...
Books in Brief: what to read this February
From the London streets that brought us Charlie Chaplin to the deep freeze of northern Siberia, here are this month’s short reviews from the magazine
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January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Books in Brief: what to read this February. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...
Singapore to invest $1.1bn in public AI research by 2030. Puts Australia to shame ... www.innovationaus.com/singapore-to...
Singapore to invest $1.1bn in public AI research by 2030
The Singapore government will invest over S$1 billion (A$1.13 billion) in public artificial intelligence research through 2030 to strengthen the nation's capabilities and global competitiveness, it sa...
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January 26, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Singapore to invest $1.1bn in public AI research by 2030. Puts Australia to shame ... www.innovationaus.com/singapore-to...
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
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January 26, 2026 at 1:00 AM
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
“It feels as though the ground beneath our feet is shifting. AI is beginning to cause tectonic movements in markets, industries and workplaces. We can hear the low rumbling of a new technological revolution, but we don’t yet know what course it will take.” tinyurl.com/3hekzzr4
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calls for urgent action to boost the capital’s AI workforce | Computer Weekly
Khan has launched a taskforce to tackle the risk of mass unemployment that could occur as artificial intelligence threatens London jobs.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:24 PM
“It feels as though the ground beneath our feet is shifting. AI is beginning to cause tectonic movements in markets, industries and workplaces. We can hear the low rumbling of a new technological revolution, but we don’t yet know what course it will take.” tinyurl.com/3hekzzr4
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making www.independent.ie/business/tec...
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making
In 1966, professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called Eliza. His intentions were noble, but the results shocked him.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making www.independent.ie/business/tec...
"Stan Grant makes the case for attentive silence in When Words Fail Us (NewSouth, May), while the techno-commentator Toby Walsh considers the force reshaping everything else in God AI (Black Inc, September)." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Australian books to look forward to in 2026: from a 278-page sentence to a memoir about a ‘cursed vagina’
It promises to be a marvellous year ahead for OzLit, with new books from the likes of Kate Grenville, Siang Lu, Antoinette Lattouf, Shaun Micallef, Judith Lucy and more
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January 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
"Stan Grant makes the case for attentive silence in When Words Fail Us (NewSouth, May), while the techno-commentator Toby Walsh considers the force reshaping everything else in God AI (Black Inc, September)." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
"Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim...our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs" arxiv.org/abs/2601.026...
Extracting books from production language models
Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
"Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim...our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs" arxiv.org/abs/2601.026...
In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the UNSW AI Institute, to break down what to expect from the tech in 2026. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
PM to announce Bondi Royal Commission + Your AI cheat sheet for 2026
Podcast Episode · The Briefing · 07/01/2026 · 19m
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January 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the UNSW AI Institute, to break down what to expect from the tech in 2026. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
AI in 2026 youtu.be/gaQsnndwW0E?...
[NEWS SPECIAL] USHERING IN 2026
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January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
AI in 2026 youtu.be/gaQsnndwW0E?...
The state of AI today (interview) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7Z...
S. Korea’s push to lead in the age of AI
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December 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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