James Thomson
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2,279 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jun
James Thomson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Your turn.
All right.
I'm going to jump to Phil who says, Alan, you've suggested quarantining the shelving of the 50% discount to housing only and leaving it available for shares.
If that were adopted, couldn't I just set up a small company to buy a house and then sell the shares to get the 50% discount and
Oh, I'm not sure about that.
Phil, that sounds pretty complicated to me, Alan.
But Phil also has a specific question for me.
Off the back of the AFR AI Summit and dealing with executives and senior leaders who are advanced in their thinking of AI,
Did I get the sense that any of them were suffering from AI psychosis, which is when you basically think that AI is going to be much better than it is.
In the US, across tech firms, there are lots of anecdotes of leaders being convinced that AI could solve a problem because they don't fully understand it end to end.
They mock something up in AI, think it automates a process without seeing all the work people have to put in to finish it.
I've heard of senior leaders disparaging a team's effort saying they could have vibe coded a solution.
Vibe coding is where you just basically say to AI, can you come up with this?
I wanted to know if James got that vibe from senior leaders at the forum, that they had a disconnect from the promise of AI to the actual benefits.
Phil, I think there's a touch of AI psychosis about the entire world at the moment.
What's really interesting to me is I think Australian executives are actually going fairly slowly on AI at the moment.
Yeah.
Peter Tonner, who's the chairman of Nine Entertainment, which publishes The Fin, he's also the executive chairman of a Woolworths-owned business called Quantium.
It's a big data and AI consultancy.
He says what he gets told from the big AI firms is Australia's…
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