The Eidos national dialogues and how to take part

Every dialogue has its own space on Mindhive. Open the dialogue from https://www.eidos.org.au/dialogues, read the framing paper, and add your contribution. Participation is free and open to any Australian.

Contributions are open until 31 December 2026.

You can also propose a dialogue that is not yet running, or start your own space on Mindhive, from the same page.

A discussion paper by Dr. Lindley Edwards, launched at a Brisbane lunch on 29 July 2026. The conversation continues at an invitation-only Melbourne lunch on 20 October 2026 and the paper is being revised to carry the Brisbane insights into it.

It sets out the tension between artificial intelligence as a democratising force for knowledge and productivity, and artificial intelligence as a source of labour displacement, environmental cost and cognitive colonisation. The dialogue asks what Australians want AI to become.

The paper is free to download with no form or email required, at https://www.eidos.org.au/blog/two-poles-of-ai.

The Collective is the public community around the dialogues: discussion spaces, events, member profiles and shared dialogue workspaces where response papers are published.

Membership is free and requires a name and an email address, at https://www.eidos.org.au/collective.