Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson
Co-director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE); Co-director, Digital Access and Equity Research Program, Melbourne Social Equity Institute; Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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‘Picture to burn’: The law probably won’t protect Taylor (or other women) from deepfakes
Legal redress is hard if you fall victim to an AI-generated pornographic and abusive deepfake
Sciences & Technology
The flawed algorithm at the heart of Robodebt
Robodebt teaches us that even simple automated decision-making systems come with the biases of the people, systems and policies that conceive them
Sciences & Technology
Is sentience really the debate to have?
While debate over the alleged sentience of the LaMDA chatbot continues, there are bigger questions about AI’s overall lack of transparency
Sciences & Technology
The AI pretenders
As artificial intelligence advances, should we be concerned about robots and virtual bots pretending to be human or human like?
Politics & Society
ACCC vs Big Tech: Round 10 and counting
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking on Big Tech again – this time it’s Meta – with a focus on dismantling a key Big Tech defence tool
Arts & Culture
Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner?
In 1982, Blade Runner floored audiences with its technodystopian depiction of the future. Almost 40 years on, some of these projections seem eerily accurate
Politics & Society
Surveillance: What is it good for?
Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness
Sciences & Technology
TikTok captures your face
TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy
Politics & Society
Podcast
AI and humans: collaboration rather than domination
When algorithms make important decisions, we also need to involve humans who understand the context, explains AI and ethics researcher Jeannie Paterson