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  • 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

  1. 8 February 2024 - Legal Affairs

    ‘Picture to burn’: The law probably won’t protect Taylor (or other women) from deepfakes

    Legal redress is hard to come by – even if you're Taylor Swift – if you're a victim of an AI deepfake pornography and abuse, says University of Melbourne expert

  2. 10 July 2023 - Engineering & Technology

    The flawed algorithm at the heart of Robodebt

    Robodebt shows us that automated decision-making algorithms encode the biases of the people and policies that conceive them, say University of Melbourne experts

  3. 16 June 2022 - Legal Affairs

    Is sentience really the debate to have?

    Debate over the alleged sentience of LaMDA continues, but University of Melbourne experts say there are bigger questions about AI’s overall lack of transparency

  4. 23 May 2022 - Legal Affairs

    The AI pretenders

    As artificial intelligence advances, University of Melbourne experts ask whether we should be concerned about robots and virtual bots pretending to be human.

  5. 24 March 2022 - Legal Affairs

    ACCC vs Big Tech: Round 10 and counting

    University of Melbourne experts say the ACCC is taking on Big Tech again – this time it’s Meta – with a focus on dismantling a key Big Tech defence tool.

  6. 21 February 2022 - Engineering & Technology

    Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner?

    Blade Runner depicted a technodystopian future. Almost 40 years on, University of Melbourne experts say some of these projections can now seem eerily accurate.

  7. 28 October 2021 - Engineering & Technology

    Surveillance: What is it good for?

    Online monitoring raises serious issues but applying ethics and rights can help make it fair and accountable, say University of Melbourne experts.

  8. 26 July 2021 - Engineering & Technology

    TikTok captures your face

    University of Melbourne experts say that TikTok's decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity.

  9. Podcast7 July 2021 - Eavesdrop on Experts

    AI and humans: collaboration rather than domination

    When algorithms make important decisions, we also need to involve humans who understand the context, explains University of Melbourne's Jeannie Paterson

  10. 1 June 2021 - Legal Affairs

    Charging dead clients is dishonest. Really? Who knew

    Regulatory court action over the scandal in which fees were charged to dead clients is a wider warning to corporations, say University of Melbourne experts.