Read on for:
🤝 Why we started this newsletter
📝 The 4 things you need to succeed in AI transformation
💻 Link to our Claude Code 101 webinar
📫 First day feels.
I moved primary schools three times while growing up in Perth and being the 'new girl' never got old. Making new friends was exciting, exploring a new learning environment was fun. And strangely enough, I have the same feelings as we release our first edition of analogue by ClearAI.
We’re an AI adoption advisory based in Brisbane with a mission to realise a future where technologies (especially AI) elevate humanity, not replace it. As well as being human-centric, we love our country and wanted to cut through the global AI noise – sharing our thoughts on what all the changes could mean locally, with a Millennial perspective.
As an all-Millennial team, we foresee our generational cohort inheriting significant decision making roles over the next decade – if not now already. We hope to facilitate connections and contribute to fruitful discussions in the future with this in mind.
We also wanted to create a space to connect all Australians (and friends elsewhere) interested in AI going well (from the normies to the techies). So stay tuned as we get the ClearAI Community up and going.
In every fortnightly edition, you’ll get:
🇦🇺 AI news in Australia or global developments impacting us down under,
🤠 The AI Round-Up where we present the good, the bad and the ugly in AI,
🎟️ Insider access to resources, guides, and virtual + in-person events,
📝 A feature story that speaks to the realities of AI adoption, and
🕰️ Our Analogue Edit where we share what’s helping us live slowly + hear from you!
Without further ado, let’s get into it.
Jisoo Kim
Co-Founder + Director
🇦🇺 AI News x Australia
National AI Plan Momentum: Australia’s ‘AI Minister’ recently delivered a keynote speech to the Human Technology Institute in Sydney stating AI regulation and governance certainty will come “through the National AI Plan, the National AI Centre, and the AI Safety Institute”.
UN’s new Expert Panel on AI: The UN General Assembly recently approved a 40-member global scientific panel tasked with assessing how AI is transforming lives worldwide. One Australian representative is on the list: Dr Qinghua Lu (Acting Research Director of Software and Computational Systems Research Program at CSIRO and a Senior Principal Research Scientist specialising in AI engineering and responsible AI).
Big tech in town: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will arrive in Sydney for the Microsoft AI Tour in April – his first visit to Australia since 2019. He’s expected to outline a strategy that positions Australia as a critical hub for innovation and infrastructure, not just a major consumer market for Microsoft’s AI products.
🤠 The AI Round-Up
The Good
Harrison.ai, an Australia-based radiology AI firm founded in 2018, has seen more than 1,000 healthcare facilities worldwide now use its solutions – including 50% of Australian radiologists – with its technology impacting 6 million patients annually. Its products help radiologists produce a 45% increase in diagnostic accuracy and has increased the proportion of cancer cases detected at treatable stages by more than 26%.
The Bad
A September 2025 survey of 1,039 Australians aged 18 years or older found that nearly 28% respondents have opened up or been emotionally vulnerable with a chatbot like ChatGPT at least once. Around 14% said they could imagine themselves falling in love with an AI chatbot, rising to 28% among Gen Z. Though the sample size is small, these stats point to a loneliness gap that is widening and at risk of being filled by AI companions.
& The Ugly
OpenClaw is a powerful open-source AI assistant that can run on your own computer and automatically perform tasks like managing emails or interacting with apps. Because it can access sensitive files, accounts and tools, it has become a target for hackers. Security researchers recently found real malware designed to steal OpenClaw’s configuration files, which can contain login tokens and access keys. That means attackers could potentially take controls of the AI agent or misuse connected services. OpenClaw has hired Australian offensive security specialist Jamieson O’Reilly as lead security advisor to help improve the project’s security posture. In the meantime, we strongly advise not connecting OpenClaw bots to personal or business data.
🎟️ Events + Goodies
Claude Code 101 Webinar (via Google Meet)
Tuesday 10 March, 10:30-11:15am AEST
Wondering why everyone is raving about Claude Code? We’ll show you how to use it so you can decide for yourself if it’s worth the hype.
📝 The Feature
AI presents a new era of change: new tooling, rapid pace, and different problem sets. But we have seen this before through digital transformation.
Taking lessons from Digital transformation at scale: why the strategy is delivery by the delivery team behind GOV.UK, Josh outlines four considerations for your AI transformation based on proven approaches:
i. A crisis,
ii. A leader,
iii. A team, and
iv. A mission.
You can succeed in AI transformation
In the constant AI news and hype cycle, there is rightly skepticism about the real business value of AI but read Josh’s full LinkedIn article here for why we have good reason to believe otherwise.
🕰️ The Analogue Edit
Celebrating Lunar New Year… the Korean way.
Happy Lunar New Year!
This section of our newsletter is carved out for things that help us unplug, log off, be more intential, tactile and human-paced. And as a nod to Jisoo’s Korean heritage, we’re sharing a delicious recipe for wagyu tteokguk ‘rice cake soup’. Well, it’s Esther Choi’s spin on it, and whether or not you decide to give it a go, just watching her put together all the components of the dish makes you realise Koreans don’t take any shortcuts when it comes to (more traditional) cooking.
Let us know if there are any recipes you use that take a jolly good time to make but are well worth it. We’d love to share it with others next time.
The Year of the Fire Horse symbolises vitality, passion, full energy, high speed and courage which seems apt given we’re less than 50 days into 2026 but it already feels like July, and AI developments seem to be going at breakneck speeds.
Here’s to saddling up and keeping pace!
We hope you enjoyed our first drop, and that you share with friends and colleagues.
See you in the next edition.
Yours in humanity,
Josh, Jisoo + Robbie