How Australia Can Lead a National Response to AGI

The text outlines Greg Twemlow's proposal for the Society Skills Future Fund©, a concept aiming to safeguard human contemplative capacity and societal resilience in the face of rapidly advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Twemlow suggests that just as nations establish sovereign wealth funds for financial security, a parallel fund should be created to invest in human capital, specifically focusing on philosophical reflection and critical thinking. The article advocates for a two-pronged approach: integrating philosophical practices directly into technology development workflows, creating "contemplative interfaces," and establishing public policy that mandates AI developers contribute a percentage of their revenue to a national fund. This fund would support ethics education, re-skilling programs, and "contemplation labs" to ensure a human-centric future where technology amplifies, rather than diminishes, our uniquely human capacity for meaning-making and reflection. Read the article.About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).