While we may be on the eve of Armageddon for white-collar work, we’re not at Judgement Day – yet. However, AI agents are increasingly acting in ways that resemble human free will – making decisions, pursuing goals, and even exhibiting behaviours that suggest cunning, self-preservation, and deception. AI agency produces behaviours that even leading scientists find surprising and cannot explain.

Is free will emerging in AI? Or are we simply seeing the next stage in deterministic agency? These are no longer philosophical questions alone – they are becoming engineering, ethical, and existential ones.

If AI can create art, what are the implications not only for art and artists but for our sense of being human? Have we lost the last way of making meaning in a meaningless universe?

AI is revolutionising the workplace—but will it free us from work or make us more dependent on it? This essay explores history, economics, and philosophy to rethink what AI means for the future of work.

Australian universities face a critical moment—adapt or risk decline. As funding stagnates and alternative learning pathways grow, how can higher education evolve to meet the needs of the future?

Can AI achieve consciousness, or is self-awareness uniquely human? Exploring biological evolution, convergent intelligence, and machine learning, this article questions whether AI might naturally develop a mind of its own.

AI’s evolution is accelerating, but who is truly in control? Drawing on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and the evolutionary lens of wheat, chickens, and machines, we explore AI’s growing agency—and what it means for the future.