Digital Ethics
Sciences & Technology
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
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?
Health & Medicine
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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