Ravi Nayyar

Lead Policy Analyst, AUSCL

About

Dr Ravi Nayyar is Lead Policy Analyst at the Australasian Society for Computers + Law, and a Fellow at the Social Cyber Institute and Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Awarded by the University of Sydney in 2026, Ravi's PhD explored the regulation of national security risks from critical software products deployed on critical infrastructure assets. A published author, Ravi continues to write extensively on cyber and national security policy, including for his Substack, ‘A Techno-Legal Update'.

Speaking at Australian AI Safety Forum 2026

AI Safety: Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity in the Age of Intelligent Systems

7 July 2026 · 11:45 am – 12:25 pm · Sutherlandworkshop

AI systems are now embedded across organisational workflows, yet most governance, privacy and cybersecurity frameworks were never designed for autonomous, data hungry, vendor dependent technologies. The result: AI is accelerating long standing organisational weaknesses—data leakage, insecure integrations, opaque supply chains, unclear accountability and overconfidence in automated outputs. This session examines AI safety through the intersecting lenses of privacy, data governance, cybersecurity, and software supply chain resilience. Using realistic scenarios, the panel will explore how AI systems create new attack surfaces, amplify poor quality data, complicate incident response, and expose organisations to regulatory, operational and national security risks. The discussion is designed to be practical, provocative and cross disciplinary, giving legal, risk, cyber, governance and executive leaders a clear view of what “safe AI” requires in real world.