Santow is the deciding factor because of “AI flop”.

Santow is the deciding factor because of “AI flop”.

By Julian Bajkowski
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 19:45:00

Society’s understanding of history, which institutions and educators have long relied on, is increasingly at risk of becoming distorted as inferior material flows into AI systems and is then recycled by newer models.

And then there’s the cannibalism.

In a groundbreaking speech to the Sir Vincent Fairfax Oration in Sydney on Thursday, former human rights commissioner and now sought-after ethics consultant and academic Ed Santow gave a serious wake-up call to various artificial intelligence cheer squad leaders and positivity meme flunkies.