Digital Ethics

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Sciences & Technology

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Opinion

Is today the day the music dies?

Australia’s live music scene is already suffering, but AI-generated music could put the industry under even more pressure

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Arts & Culture

‘Blank Space’: What if AI wrote the songs instead of Taylor?

Taylor Swift fans love the honesty, vulnerability and relatability of her lyrics – but would we have the same connection if AI wrote the words?

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Health & Medicine

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Book extract

Our mental health has gone digital

Apps, wearables and ingestibles that support digital mental health have lowered barriers to access but have profound social, ethical, and legal implications

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Education

University students are using AI, but not how you think

Higher education students are cautious about using generative AI and academics lack guidance, finds new report

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Sciences & Technology

We need to retain research integrity in the AI era

There’s no question that artificial intelligence technologies pose a profound challenge to our ability to ensure the integrity of research, particularly in PhD study

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Sciences & Technology

What’ll be big in 2023? AI, that’s what

In 2022, artificial intelligence chatbots and image generators seemed to take over the internet, but what can we expect from AI in 2023?

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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

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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?

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Sciences & Technology

Challenging decisions made by algorithm

If an algorithm makes a decision about you that you think is unfair, a lack of process can make it difficult to challenge, appeal or even contest that decision

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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

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