Foreword
Elanor Huntington FTSE — ATSE Board Member; Executive Director, Digital, National Facilities & Collections, CSIRO
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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
What is responsible AI anyway?
Professor Jon Whittle — Director, CSIRO’s Data61
10 examples of AI that are here now and have been embraced by the general public
Stela Solar — Director, National Artificial Intelligence Centre
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SECTION 2: WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT?
A unique opportunity for Australia: bridging the divide between fundamental AI research and usable, embodied AI
Professor Michael Milford FTSE — ARC Laureate Fellow, Joint Director QUT Centre for Robotics
Responsible AI means keeping humans in the loop: what are other social implications of the mainstream adoption of this technology
Associate Professor Carolyn Semmler – School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide Lana Tikhomirov — Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), The University of Adelaide
AI is changing the way people work: how do we skill our future workforce to ensure these new jobs stay on shore?
Professor Katrina Falkner FTSE — Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology,The University of Adelaide
Responsible data management: a precursor to responsible AI
Dr Rocky Chen, Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini, Professor Guido Zuccon, and Professor Shazia Sadiq FTSE — School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL
Andrew Dettmer — National President, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Innovation needs to create value: how do we tool universities to remain relevant to industry needs?
Professor Simon Lucey — Director, Australian Institute for Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide
An AI-literate community will be essential for the continuity of social democracy.
Kylie Walker — Chief Executive Officer, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
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SECTION 3: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
What are the limits of current AI, and what opportunities does this create for Australian research?
Professor Anton van den Hengel FTSE — Director, Centre for Augmented Reasoning, Australian Institute for Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide
Australia’s unfair advantage in the new global wave of AI innovation.
Professor Mary-Anne Williams FTSE — Michael J Crouch, Chair for Innovation, UNSW Business School
The $1 billion dollar question: What should Australia’s responsible AI future look like?
Kingston AI Group
Contributors to this article: Professor Joanna Batstone FTSE, Professor Stephen Gould, Professor Anton van den Hengel FTSE, Adjunct Professor Sue Keay FTSE, Professor Dana Kulić, Professor Jie Lu, Professor Simon Lucey, Professor Michael Milford FTSE. Professor Ben Rubinstein, Professor Svetha Venkatesh FTSE, Professor Toby Walsh
What are we doing now to ensure that Australia is recognised as a global leader in responsible AI, and what else should we be doing now and into the future?
Dr Ian Opperman FTSE — NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist, Department of Customer Service
