Building AI for the future we want

In this podcast, the UTS Human Technology Institute's co-directors, Professors Sally Cripps, Edward Santow and Nicholas Davis discuss how AI can be used to build the future we want. Emerging developments around OpenAI and ChatGPT, mean it is now more important than ever to be prioritising ethics and governance in the future of AI regulation.

There is a large AI community that says that the solution to bias and fairness is more AI. In fact, we should have deep learning too. I think that they’ve missed the point. I think, by being rigorous in the mathematics, you can actually build systems that enable you to quantify uncertainty

Professor Sally Cripps

If you’re listening to this podcast, and you’re in a large organisation, or even an organisation that is small, but does some really meaningful things using AI systems, even just recruitment AI, you need to be asking some pretty critical questions about bias, potential for discrimination and harm right now, because regulators are

 Professor Nicholas Davis

Going back more than 10 years ago, now, I could see a whole bunch of my clients, some of the most vulnerable disadvantaged people in Australia, were increasingly having technology used on them, … some of that was algorithmic decision making. Some of it wasn’t. But there was certainly a lot of automated processes that were being used more and more on really vulnerable people 

Professor Edward Santow

Listen to the podcast now on The ai Australia podcast: the human technology institute