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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Particular AI-related research and analysis needs have been identified by the Bangladesh Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme of the ICT Division and Cabinet Division of Bangladesh. Applicants are asked to choose one research question/problem, under either ‘Continuous Assessment’’ or ‘Pregnancy Monitoring’, to respond to in a policy research paper. (Representatives from the relevant government agencies will provide guidance to the researchers as they develop their papers.). Click through for more details!
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Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Logan of the Australian National University and Dr. Jasper Tromp of the National University of Singapore for winning research grants for this EOI. Sarah and Jasper will create a policy relevant papers for the Thai government in the areas of ‘Poverty Alleviation’ and ‘Medicine & Healthcare’ respectively.
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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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The public online discussion Science, Populism and Politics in the 21st Century took place on the 10th of September. The discussion was led by Deputy Labor Leader the Hon. Richard Marles MP, former Chief Scientist of Australia Professor Ian Chubb and Annabel Bligh, Business and Economy editor at The Conversation UK. Host of The Anthill podcast. Click through for more information.
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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.
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Can policymakers detoxify social media? Listen to HMI CI Jenny Davis, Dr Jennifer Hunt, and Yun Jiang discuss online hate, anti-social behaviour on digital platforms, and what policymakers can do about it.
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This report analyses the literature exploring the meaning of the fairness principle in EU data protection law. Fairness is included in both Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter) and Article 5(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Despite these foundations however, the fairness principle has been largely unexplored and remains broadly undefined in the data protection framework, case law and guidance literature.
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Seth Lazar was invited to be on the Academic Board's Data Governance Working Group, with the remit to consider the university's principles and policies around data protection, in particular in relation to the data generated by members of the university as they use its services (digital and otherwise).
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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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