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Published 13 Sep 2021

Indigenous PhD Scholarships at the Melbourne Law School

Published 31 Aug 2021

Can Australian employers make you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Mostly not — but here’s when they can

Published 19 Aug 2021

Dr Jake Goldenfein and Dr Anjalee de Silva received 2021 ECR Seed Funding Grants

The ADM+S Centre’s Research Training Program has announced the recipients for round 1 of the 2021 ECR Seed Funding Grants. Out of the 11 project proposals submitted, two University of Melbourne’s academics were awarded based on high impact outcomes, cross collaboration across ADM+S research groups, focus areas and nodes, and project teams.Jake Goldenfein (ADM+S Associate Investigator) with Thao Phan, Lauren Kelly, Jathan Sadowski and Project Leader, Dr Chris O’Neill will work on the project, Precarious warehouse work and the automation of logistical mobilities: Understanding Amazon in the Australian context.Anjalee de Silva (ADM+S Postdoctoral Fellow) with Rosalie Gillet will co-lead the project, Gendered Harms Online: Conceptualising, Identifying, and Addressing Harms to Women on Digital Platforms.The ECR Seed Funding Grants aim to provide support to the Centre’s early career researchers by funding research projects across the Centre’s nodes, programs and focus areas.

Published 04 Aug 2021

Are Robots The Answer For Aged Care During Pandemics?

Dr Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, and Gabby Bush wrote about care robots and the possibility of using their care during a pandemic, when human to human contact can be dangerous.

Published 30 Jul 2021

TikTok Captures Your Face

Professor Jeannie Paterson and Dr Niels Wouters discuss how TikTok's latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy.

Published 26 Jul 2021

AI and Humans: Collaboration rather than domination

In this podcast, Co-Director, Professor Jeannie Paterson discusses the need for human involvement when using technology for decision-making

Published 07 Jul 2021

Animals, Ethics and Technology: Towards Digital Rights for Animals Event Reccording

The Centre for AI and Digital Ethics’ with our Co-hosts the Animal Welfare Science Centre were pleased to present this panel on Animals, Ethics and Technology.Friday 25 June, 1pm.In a digital world, the design and deployment of technologies must be carefully considered. While many experts around the world work to ensure ethical human engagement, it is important to also think about the role technology plays with animals. Are we making technology that centres animal’s rights? Is the use of technology ethical in our homes, animal shelters, zoos and farms? Can this technology help to better the lives of animals or ensure sustainable environmental outcomes? Are these technologies being designed for the benefit of our pets or just for the benefit of us?This panel is a discussion by experts in the field of animal-computer-interaction. Their work looks at technologies that are used on and made for animals, aiming to use improve outcomes for wildlife and habitats under threat. Our panel, Dr Mia Cobb, Animal Welfare Science Centre, Dr Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Dr Sarah Webber, Human-Computer Interaction Group, bring a cross-disciplinary perspective to the consideration of the ethics, rights, design and deployment of technology for animals.Animals, Ethics and Technology: Towards digital rights for animals is the second seminar in the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics’ series ‘Technology and the World Around Us.’

Published 02 Jul 2021

Can the government get its workplace harassment laws right? Its bill is a missed opportunity

Published 01 Jul 2021

Questioning the Chatbot: scrutinising the performance of Telco customer service chatbots in terms of service, transparency, safety, privacy and security

CAIDE is delighted to have received a grant from the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN.)

Published 30 Jun 2021

Call for Papers AI: LEAP 2021

AI LEAP (AI Law, Ethics, Algorithms and Politics) is a new annual conference that aims to foster intellectual exchanges among disciplinary and trans-disciplinary experts, drawing broadly on computer science, the social sciences, and the humanities, without centering any one perspective at the expense of others.

Published 30 Jun 2021

Law, Code and Exploitation: How Corporations Regulate the Working Conditions of the Digital Proletariat

In an article published in Critical Sociology, Research Fellow Aitor Jiménez argues that digital capitalists are reorganising work and the labour force through a form of algorithmic regulation.

Published 30 Jun 2021

What do Pilots think of having more AI in the Cockpit?

Under the 2020 CAIDE Seed Funding grant researchers from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Engineering and IT under Dr Fabio Mattioli have written about their project "From Pockets to Cockpits: The cultural context of digital flight assistants.

Published 28 Jun 2021