Some universities are deploying AI detection tools. The University of Western Australia will not. I agree with that decision.
The emissions from legally operating electricity generation and industrial plants are a problem for sovereign governments to solve.
Allowing artificial intelligence to be an excuse for not teaching our students how to write, read and fact-check would be a disaster.
Australia has to look at the global benefits of green projects, not just local impacts. The alternative might be stagnation, or worse.
The performance of science students has stopped declining as resources from private publishers became available to teachers. Investing more in what is working will be far more productive than starting from scratch.
If we convert 90 per cent of our electricity generation to renewables and the rest to gas generators we can focus on climate-change success, rather than failure.
Our resources industry is dig-and-ship. But global factors mean this country has a once-in-a-century opportunity to be a world-class electrostate that refines its critical minerals before export.
