Bruce Mullan

Hitchhiker's Guide to AI Governance

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This is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance , hosted by Bruce Mullan (who is mostly harmless). The Australian AI Governance Standard contains 42 statements, so in this podcast, of course, we'll discuss life, the universe and everything related to AI Governance. Each episode, we’ll be talking with the people who are actually trying to create, govern and use AI: - policymakers and regulators wrestling with rapidly changing technology, - AI vendors disrupting every aspect of our lives to make things easier, - researchers and ethicists asking how to align powerful systems with human values, ...

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Bruce Mullan

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Episode 9 Phyllis Elin - Bringing Information Governance into the AI era 29.06.2026 50:36

Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Information Governance expert, Phyllis Elin. With over three decades of senior information governance leadership, Phyllis Elin helps her global clients create, deploy, and maintain defensible and cost-saving information governance strategies. After 30 years, she's now preparing to bring Information Governance into the AI era. Key Takeaways The importance of...

Episode 8 Gerry McCusker - Never let a good AI crisis go to waste 10.06.2026 1:00:32

Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Crisis Expert, Gerry McCusker. Gerry McCusker is the driving force behind The Drill, unique software for crisis simulation training. Gerry talks about: AI Risks Are Often Old Risks in New Packaging Focus on Consequences, Not the Technology AI Amplifies Existing Organisational Weaknesses Organisations Need Business Continuity and Crisis Planning for AI Crisi...

Episode 7 Duncan Brett - A vendor's perspective on being an intelligence company 27.05.2026 41:19

Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance, the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Duncan Brett Duncan is the successful Chief Operating Officer at Decidr AI. Duncan shares his perspectives about these topics: - AI is Really About “Intelligence”, Not Just Models - Gov...

Episode 6 Part 2 Professor Michael Davern - An academic perspective on being human in an AI craze 20.05.2026 48:42

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance", the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. In this Part 2 episode I picked up Professor Michael Davern. Michael is the Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems at the prestigious University of Melbourne. Michael has been working with AI sin...

Episode 6 Part 1 Professor Michael Davern - An academic perspective on being human in an AI craze 14.05.2026 31:03

Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance, the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Professor Michael Davern. Michael is the Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems at the prestigious University of Melbourne. Michael has been working with AI since the 19...

Episode 5 Jacinta Whelan - AI is the opportunity of a lifetime to design the career you want 08.05.2026 53:27

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance", the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Jacinta Whelan. Jacinta is the eminently successful lead Partner at Watermark Search Melbourne. Jacinta specialises in placing seasoned C-Suite professionals in organisations for specific...

Episode 4 Philip Cornish - An AI perspective from the community sector 25.04.2026 29:36

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance", the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. In this episode I picked up Phil Cornish. Philip, our resident human in the loop, has over twenty years of board level experience across the commercial, government and not for profit sectors with particular experience...

Episode 3 Neil Butler - Reinventing Change Management for the AI era 17.04.2026 46:41

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance", the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. Don’t panic. Today I speak with Neil Butler from Untypical, a boutique change management consulting practice. Neil has been delivery change for over 30 years across Australia and believes most of the way organisations do change is...

Episode 2 Ambrion AI - AI Governance must be built in, not added on 14.04.2026 1:06:01

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance" — the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. But don’t panic. Today we speak with John Webb-O'Rourke and Shane McCarthy from Ambrion AI, an Irish intelligence company purpose built for the AI era. In this lively conversation, John and Shane share their starkly different A...

Episode 1 Dr Darryl Carlton - Garbage In, Gospel Out 07.04.2026 41:00

Welcome to "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Governance" — the podcast for anyone trying to make sense of intelligent machines, messy politics, and everything in between. But don’t panic. Today we speak with Dr Darryl Carlton, author of 8 books including his latest and most successful: Garbage in gospel out, the practitioners workbook for transforming AI governance. In this in-depth interview, Dr...