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The AI Australia Podcast is hosted by Natalie Rouse and Dr Kobi Leins and brought to you by eliiza. We report what’s going on in Artificial Intelligence in Australia today with a particular focus on practicing responsible AI, diversity and inclusion and AI at scale. What should we be aware of? And how could this affect society in Australia? Natalie is a champion of all things data committed to spreading better understanding of the impacts of AI within our communities. Dr Kobi Leins is a reformed lawyer who has always run alongside (and at times with) science and technology. We bring in leaders from across industry to get a sneak peak into what they’re working on and how they are handling any ethical considerations.

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The AI Australia Podcast is hosted by Natalie Rouse and Dr Kobi Leins and brought to you by eliiza. We report what’s going on in Artificial Intelligence in Australia today with a particular focus on practicing responsible AI, diversity and inclusion and AI at scale. What should we be aware of? And how could this affect society in Australia? Natalie is a champion of all things data committed to spreading better understanding of the impacts of AI within our communities. Dr Kobi Leins is a reformed lawyer who has always run alongside (and at times with) science and technology. We bring in leaders from across industry to get a sneak peak into what they’re working on and how they are handling any ethical considerations.

    AI and Cybersecurity with Karissa Breen and EJ Wise

    AI and Cybersecurity with Karissa Breen and EJ Wise

    Welcome back to the AI Australia podcast for 2024, with your hosts Natalie Rouse and Kobi Leins.
    We are joined by two experts in the field of cybersecurity - "The Voice of Cyber" multimedia journalist Karissa Breen and internationally recognised cyber law expert Emma (EJ) Wise.
    We start off learning about Aboriginal Birthing Trees, then talk about the ethics of self-driving cars, international regulation & frameworks, education, the use of autonomous technology in the military, cyber law, the use of AI in manipulating upcoming elections, information warfare, the naming of the Russian hacker responsible for the Medibank hack, and the opportunity for AI to drive innovation on both sides of the fence - for organisations protecting themselves and for hackers. We make it clear we do not condone cyber criminality!
    Unfortunately we did lose the last half of EJ's audio, which is a technical travesty because she did have many fascinating things to say - we will get her back to share more of her great thoughts and experiences at a later date. 
     
    Links:
    Karissa Breen
    Emma (EJ) Wise
    Aboriginal Birthing Tree
    Missy Cummings on Tesla Autopilot
    Automating the Banality and Radicality of Evil
    Moral Machine
     

    • 34 min
    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 11

    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 11

    In our last episode for 2023, Kobi & Nat discuss the following recent developments around the world and how they relate to Australia:
    The EU AI Act, which has made it another step closer to reality, albeit with some conditions for regulating foundation models that not everyone is happy with. Kobi has been reading Nancy Levison's new book, which looks at large historical accidents and unpacks what that looks like from a human perspective. We wonder how the Act will plug into the new international standards coming out, and whether that might result in some more granular teeth for the Act. Microsoft has been quietly talking to industrial organisations in the US, leading us to wonder how the Hollywood Writer's strike will impact other union negotiations around the world. The attribution of job losses to AI or automation is proving difficult, and will make future union negotiations even more interesting. Kobi talks about the history and evolution of boards over time, which leads us to circle back to the Open AI board purging and reflect on recent information that has come out about why exactly Sam Altman was fired in the first place.

    • 21 min
    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 10

    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 10

    This week join Kobi and Natalie as they discuss some perhaps seemingly-unrelated global trends, and ponder how AI may or may not impact or amplify them in the future.
    We raise questions about:
    There are around 40 upcoming elections happening around the world in 2024; have we already seen advancements in AI play a role in driving a shift to the right, and what might we expect to see in the next year? There is a trend where local media is becoming increasingly scarce - what does that mean for our local collective understandings & conversations, and global polarisation? The lack of diversity (gender and otherwise) in technology media (and the technology industry in general) presents a major hurdle for language models of the future as it leads to a lack of variety in the type of voices on record today, and hence in training data tomorrow.  Links:
    Where are all the godmothers of AI? In the Guardian
    A 'Trump moment' in the Netherlands shows that Europe still has a populist problem - CNN
    Brace for elections: 40 countries are voting in 2024 - Bloomberg
    The Guardian view on local journalism's decline: bad news for democracy

    • 21 min
    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 9

    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 9

    This week in AI has been a week like no other - join Natalie & Kobi to mull over the back and forth at OpenAI over the last week as we delve into what happened and what might it all mean. We are saddened about the departure of all the women on the OpenAI board, but wonder if the previous academic-focussed board had found themselves out of their depth as the value of the company grew. We are more than a little curious about the eventual movie that will no doubt be made about this highly dramatic saga!
    We also talk about the importance of governance around not just data but AI, including processes & accountability rather than just technical aspects.
    No links this week because there is not enough space on the internet to link to all of the articles covering the happenings of this last week.

    • 10 min
    Maori Data Sovereignty with Megan Tapsell, Dr Karaitiana Taiuru JP, and Assoc Prof Maui Hudson

    Maori Data Sovereignty with Megan Tapsell, Dr Karaitiana Taiuru JP, and Assoc Prof Maui Hudson

    Welcome to another episode from the AI Australia podcast, with your hosts Natalie Rouse and Kobi Leins.
    Continuing the conversation from our last interview on the importance of Indigenous data rights, this time we cross the ditch to Aotearoa New Zealand, discussing Maori data sovereignty and artificial intelligence with three special guests: Megan Tapsell, Associate Professor Maui Hudson, and Dr Karaitiana Taiuru.
    They discuss their roles and responsibilities in advocating for indigenous data rights, the challenges and opportunities they face in this area, and the importance of data sovereignty for Maori communities.
    Towards the end, they call upon corporations to involve and fairly pay Indigenous people when working with data that impacts their communities.
    Apologies for some audio quality issues at times - we experienced some technical difficulties in recording, but are very pleased to be able to bring you most of what we felt was an important & valuable conversation.
    Links:
    Megan Tapsell on Linkedin
    Maui Hudson on Linkedin
    Karaitiana Taiuru on Linkedin

    • 30 min
    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 7

    AI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 7

    We're back! After a brief hiatus, Natalie and Kobi talk about some of the recent developments around the legal world with union agreements and lawsuits due to set some initial precedents in different areas.
    They talk about the Hollywood Writers strike and the agreement that was reached including use of AI, as well as covering some of the legal action in progress at the moment around IP ownership, copyright and the updated Privacy Act recommendations. They also touch on the right to be forgotten, and the difficulty applying that within vast training data sets.
    Natalie attended the Aotearoa NZ AI Summit, and covers some of the guardrails & principles that were discussed. 
    Kobi talked about globally the guardrails and principles that will come out of the UN. She also shared a story about Studio Ghibli's director, Hayao Miyazaki's reaction to unthoughtful use of AI in his company.
    Links:
    Anna Johnston summarises the Privacy Act proposals on Salinger Privacy
    Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI

    • 16 min

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