Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) on his third HMI policy paper ‘Explanatory Memorandum: Model Law on the Registration of Algorithmic Decision - Systems’. Click through to read the full paper.
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Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) on his second HMI policy paper ‘Legal Audit of AI in the Public Sector’. Click through to read the full paper.
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Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) and Dr. Julia Powles (University of Western Australia, Law School) for their first HMI policy paper ‘Legal Audit of AI in the Public Sector’ funded by the Minderoo Foundation.
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Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Will Bateman and Tiberio Caetano joined a panel of leading interdisciplinary experts to explore the complex legal and ethical challenges AI and automated decision-making present to industry, government and the legal profession. Click through for more information.
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Will Bateman presented ‘COVID, Artificial Intelligence and litigation against the government’ at the ACT Law Society on the 30th of September 2020. Click through for more information.
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Dr Will Bateman presented ‘Mechanical Cognition, Determinism and Individual Justice: New Challenges for Administrative Law from AI’ at a lunchtime webinar on the 13th of October 2020. The event was chaired by Paul Pfitzner. Click through for more information.
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Humanising Machine Intelligence convened a virtual roundtable consultation with Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow to discuss the Human Rights and Technology Project on 28 May 2020. HMI brought a group of senior experts and decision makers together across academia, industry and government to support the important work of the Commission.
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Seth Lazar and Will Bateman have been invited to be Gradient Institute Fellows, cementing an ongoing partnership with Australia's leading group of ethical machine learning researchers and practitioners.
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In this conference paper, Dr Will Bateman presented a technically-embedded analysis of doctrinal legal issue which arise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by regulators, government administrators and other legal actors. The paper was delivered to the collected Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, with special guest Justices from the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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In this submission, Dr Will Bateman (with Dr Julia Powles) responded to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Technology and Human Rights Discussion Paper. The submission focused on three areas of reform: the use of self-regulation and cost-benefit analyses in the regulation of human rights; the remedial force of human rights law; and the powers given to any ‘AI Safety Commissioner’.
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This impact-driven project funded by the Minderoo Foundation will produce concrete solutions (including model legislation) to regulate the use of AI by government agencies and public officials. It aims to ensure that Australia is an ‘action-leader’ in the race to ensure that AI is democratically and constitutionally legitimate.
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This lead article analyses the legal risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector, exploring the epistemic and moral assumptions of central doctrines of public law and evaluating whether they clash with algorithmic design techniques. The article exposes the central legal challenges of automating public power.
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