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Happy Lunar New Year 2022

  • Asian legal systems
  • Happy Lunar New Year 2022

    Members of the Asian Law Centre wish you and your families a Happy Lunar New Year.  We hope the Year of the Tiger is full of good health, happiness and prosperity.

    Published 31 Jan 2022

    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

    We, the Robots? Event Recording

    We, the Robots? Event Recording

    Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law, National University of Singapore and Senior Director for Governance at AI Singapore, and Professor Jeannie Paterson, Co-Director, CAIDE with artwork from Lucy West.In his recent book, We, the Robots?: Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law, Professor Simon Chesterman discusses the challenges of regulating new technology, acknowledging that they pose both significant risks but also great benefits. The book highlights the need for new institutions and rules to regulate AI with diverse examples from around the world, in particular considering developments around Asia.

    Published 11 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

    Australia's Rivers are Ancestral Beings

  • Climate
  • Australia's Rivers are Ancestral Beings

    Rivers around the world are now recognised by law as legal persons and living entities. Here in Australia, our rivers can be understood as ‘ancestral beings’ under Indigenous laws.

    Published 18 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

    Watch: the River Moorabool film screening

  • Climate
  • Watch: the River Moorabool film screening

    Published 08 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

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