Too often, the widespread adoption of new technologies serves to replicate and entrench existing inequalities. This doesn’t have to be the case.
Technology for good
The deployment of exciting, new technologies can improve our community infinitely and make it fairer and more inclusive – provided that thoughtful design, use and oversight is central to their development and deployment.
HTI has established partnerships with leading organisations in Australia and internationally to practically support technological systems to be accurate, accountable, fair and fit-for-purpose. We do this by engaging with the entire lifecycle of planning, design, development, deployment, oversight and regulation, and appreciating the social, environmental and economic contexts that co-evolve with technology.
HTI works with partners from across federal and state governments, civil society and the corporate sector as well as key international partners through our three interconnected ‘labs’.
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Human Technology Skills Lab
Established to build Australia’s capability in strategic skills associated with AI and other new technology, by building skills in procurement, implementation and oversight of AI.
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Human Technology Tools Lab
Develops practical tools that support organisations to evaluate, select, implement, and validate their approaches to AI and other new technology.
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Human Technology Policy Lab
Partners with stakeholders to explore new policy and law that promote fairness, accuracy, fitness for purpose and accountability in systems that rely on emerging technology.
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Program areas
Our projects and labs work within the following program areas:
- Facial Recognition Technology
- Digital Government Services
- AI Corporate Governance
- AI and Regulation
- Foundational AI Research for Good
- AI Strategic Skills
HTI embodies UTS’s strategic vision to be a leading public university of technology, recognised for its global impact specifically in the responsible development, use and regulation of technology.
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