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Challenging Decisions made by Algorithm

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Private
  • Challenging Decisions made by Algorithm

    Co-Director Professor Tim Miller, PhD Candidate Henrietta Lyons and Dr Eduardo Velloso discuss the issues of challenging the outcomes of automated decisions.

    Published 25 Nov 2021

    Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems

  • Private
  • commercial and consumer law
  • Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems

    Dr Simon Coghlan, Dr Shaanan Cohney and Professors Jeannie Paterson and Tim Miller discuss the ethics of online exam proctoring

    Published 10 Nov 2021

    Surveillance: What is it good for?

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Private
  • Surveillance: What is it good for?

    By Gabby Bush, Dr Simon Coghlan, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Tim Miller, University of Melbourne

    Published 29 Oct 2021

    Artificial intelligence is now part of our everyday lives – and its growing power is a double-edged sword

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Artificial intelligence is now part of our everyday lives – and its growing power is a double-edged sword

    Professor Liz Sonenberg, CAIDE researcher and Professor Toby Walsh, UNSW, write about the most recent AI100 report.

    Published 15 Oct 2021

    Should AI Systems be classifiable as patent inventors?

  • Intellectual property law
  • Digital innovation and design
  • Should AI Systems be classifiable as patent inventors?

    Hosted by the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia ((IPRIA). Listen to Professors Joshua Gans, Kimberlee Weatherall and Jeannie Paterson debate whether AI systems should be able to be classified as inventors.

    Published 07 Oct 2021

    Privacy erosion by design: why the Federal Court should throw the book at Google over location data tracking

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Private
  • Privacy erosion by design: why the Federal Court should throw the book at Google over location data tracking

    Co-Director, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Elise Bant discuss the possible penalties needed to deter googling following a Federal court ruling that the company misled some users.

    Published 19 Apr 2021

    Facebook Agrees to Pay for Murdoch’s Australia News Content

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Facebook Agrees to Pay for Murdoch’s Australia News Content

    Dr Marc Cheong, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, speaks with the New York Times about Facebook's agreement to pay for news in Australia.

    Published 12 Apr 2021

    New PhD scholarship opportunity to investigate disability, technology and society

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Equality and discrimination
  • New PhD scholarship opportunity to investigate disability, technology and society

    This MDI and CAIDE partnership invite proposals from applicants interested in undertaking research into the role of new and emerging technologies in the lives of people with disabilities, and particularly people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities.

    Published 22 Feb 2021

    Australia vs. Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Private
  • Australia vs. Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

    Facebook’s move to block Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news may look like it’s about content – but it all comes back to advertising revenue by Mariam Nadeem, Jeannie Paterson, Dana McKay and Gabby Bush

    Published 19 Feb 2021

    Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Private
  • Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing

    Jeannie Paterson, Tim Miller and Gabby Bush published 'Transparency to Contest Differential Pricing' in the Journal for Australian and New Zealand Societies for Computers and the Law.

    Published 08 Feb 2021

    Trump, Nipples and the Hypocrisy of Social Media Giants

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Trump, Nipples and the Hypocrisy of Social Media Giants

    It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised by Gabby Bush, Mariam Nadeem, Marc Cheong, Kobi Leins and Simon Coghlan.

    Published 28 Jan 2021

    Carnegie Council: AI & Equality Initiative: Algorithmic Bias & the Ethical Implications

  • International law
  • Digital innovation and design
  • Carnegie Council: AI & Equality Initiative: Algorithmic Bias & the Ethical Implications

    CAIDE researchers Kobi Leins, Leah Ruppanear and Piers Gooding speak with Anja Kaspersen about the ethical implications of Algorithmic Bias for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

    Published 18 Jan 2021

    Data Science and the need for collective law and ethics

  • Digital innovation and design
  • Legal theory and history
  • Data Science and the need for collective law and ethics

    Dr Jake Goldenfein (MLS) and Dr Sebastian Benthall (NYU) present their research on ‘Data science and the need for collective law and ethics’ in this event, co-hosted by The Centre for AI and Digital Ethics and the HMI project from the Australian National University.

    Published 09 Dec 2020

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