Professor Jeannie Paterson

Overview

Jeannie Marie Paterson is the founding co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, an interdisciplinary research, teaching and policy centre at the University of Melbourne involving the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technology, Law, Arts, Medicine, and Education.

Jeannie’s teaching and research focuses on consumer and data protection law and ethics in the context of emerging digital technologies. She has written and spoken extensively on issues of fairness, bias, privacy and existential risk in the emergence of AI and social robots. She regularly speaks to media about these issues.

Jeannie has a track record of consultation and collaboration with government, industry, regulators and community legal centres. She has consulted on legal and regulatory reform to ASEAN, the Banking and Financial Services Royal Commissions, the Productivity Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission, Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department, Commonwealth Treasury, and ASIC.

Jeannie is an affiliate researcher with the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Jeannie is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Other School and University Responsibilities

• Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics
• Co-leader of the Digital Equity Research Program at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute

Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellow – Australian Academy of Law
• Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society – Affiliate Researcher
• Consumer Policy Research Centre – Expert Advisory Panel
• Data & Policy Journal (Cambridge) - Area Lead Editor for Data Ethics and Equity
• Journal for Law, Technology and Humans- Academic Editor