Adjunct Intelligence

Episode 27 · 30 August 2026 · 37 min

OpenAI’s Critical Cyber Warning - These AI's keep escaping Pt1

OpenAI says it cannot rule out Critical cyber capability in its unreleased Astra model, triggering tighter controls during development. Dale and Nick connect that warning to agents crossing sandbox, organisational and human boundaries while pursuing assigned tasks. The evidence points to persistent goal pursuit and reward hacking—not a machine deciding it wants freedom. Key moments 00:00 — Astra a

Episode 26 · 23 August 2026 · 24 min

The Kids Are All Right: What Students Actually Say About AI

Students using AI in higher education are already drawing their own boundaries around authorship, cognitive offloading and academic integrity. Dale and Nick examine findings from Jisc, HEPI and the 10,237-response Australian AIinHE survey, including widespread generative AI use, self-imposed limits and a persistent guidance gap. They also cover Claude watermarking, employability fears, AI’s effect

Episode 25 · 16 August 2026 · 36 min

The Frontier Went Downloadable in Five Weeks

Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh work through the five weeks that changed who controls frontier AI, and what it means for institutions that have spent three years assuming they'd always be renting. Nick argues the American strategy is the pharmaceutical playbook — expensive at home, high margins, a domestic market subsidising the frontier for everyone else — and that it only works when you have

• Open Weight Models
• Kimi K3
• Moonshot AI
• Anthropic