Beyond the hype: the case for collaborative AI

Industry, universities and all levels of government should continue to explore and support collaborative AI technologies that put people first.

Programmers are increasingly using AI tools, but those same programmers are reporting their individual skills are atrophying, and they are spending more time debugging broken and confusing AI-generated code, writes Adam White.Photograph courtesy of Gerd Altmann, Pixabay.com

Opinion

BY ADAM WHITE

May 4, 2026

The coming of artificial intelligence and the build-out of massive data centres to power them is dominating the news cycles, but AI systems have been in reliable operation in our daily lives for decades.

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