Our Work — Humanising Machine Intelligence

ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub in Intelligent Robotic Systems for Real-Time Asset Management

Assoc Prof Hanna Kurniawati has received an ARC grant!

NewsHMI Staff22 September 2021Hanna

ARC Future Fellowship Award

Professor Seth Lazar wins $1m Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Award to study the political philosophy of AI.

News, GrantsHMI Staff9 September 2021Seth

ACM FAccT General Chair

Seth Lazar is General Chair for ACM FAccT 2022. The conference will take place online and in person in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in June 2022. See here for more details.

NewsHMI Staff7 September 2021Seth

Robotics: Science and Systems Test of Time Award

Congratulations to Hanna Kurniawati and her co-writers David Hsu and Wee Sun Lee (NUS) on being awarded this years RSS Test of Time Award!

NewsHMI Staff27 July 2021Hanna

100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics

Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Chelle Adamson and Toni Erskine have been included on the 2021 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics! See the full list here.

NewsHMI Staff4 March 2021Atoosa, Chelle, Toni

Visiting research scientist at DeepMind (London)

Atoosa Kasirzadeh was recently chosen for a competitive 5-month research position with DeepMind for Google's Ethical AI team in London (UK) during 2021 to work on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

NewsHMI Staff5 December 2020Atoosa

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Study on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications.

Seth Lazar was recently invited to join the National Academies of Science Engineering and Mathematics Study on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications committee.

News, ResourcesHMI Staff27 October 2020Seth

Consent & Consumer Manipulation Workshop

A paper workshop that was co-hosted by Dr Damian Clifford RF of the HMI project at ANU, and Prof Jeannie Paterson, co-Director, CAIDE at University of Melbourne. Click through for more information or view a draft agenda here.

Education, Grants, Automating-Governance, Policy, Algorithmic-Ethics, News, PresentationHMI Staff28 September 2020Damian

Tiberio Caetano Named Honorary Professor at ANU

Tiberio Caetano, Chief Scientist of the Gradient Institute, has been awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the ANU, in recognition of his research contributions to machine learning in general, and ethical machine learning in particular.

NewsHMI Staff14 August 2020Tiberio

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

Seth Lazar joined the Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute as faculty, giving talks on the moral and political epistemology of data and AI, and the Value of Explanations.

News, Algorithmic-Ethics, ResourcesHMI Staff7 July 2020Seth, Teaching

Templeton World Charity Foundation Grant Awarded.

Colin Klein (ANU), Andrew Barron (Macquarie) and Marta Halina (Cambridge) have been awarded a grant to study "The major transitions in the evolution of cognition" from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. This $1M USD grant will fund research into the major shifts in computational organisation that allowed evolving brains to process information in new ways. Researchers at the ANU, led by CI Klein, will explore the philosophical foundations of computational neuroscience.

News, Resources, Grants, IncubatorHMI Staff15 June 2020Colin, Foundations

CITAMS Chair-Elect

Jenny Davis was elected as incoming Chair-Elect for the Communication, Information, Technologies & Media Sociology section for the American Sociological Association

News, ResourcesHMI Staff10 June 2020Jenny