feels hard to articulate how sick this makes me. there's so many of us doing good work and wanting permanent jobs, and there's so much work to be done, everyone is exhausted, and yet this obsession with storing away money continues on theguardian.com/australia-news…

Expressions of interest now open for CAIDE's 2023 Seed Funding Round! We're on the lookout for up to 5 projects exploring the ethical, legal, philosophical, scientific, tech or policy challenges of automated tools, providing expertise in a specific field: unimelb.edu.au/caide/research…

Gracias Fundación Consejo España-India por haceros eco de nuestro #Tech4Democracy Venture Day en Delhi, coorganizado con ORF en el marco de Raisina Dialogue. Forma parte del Tech4Democracy Global Entrepreneurship Challenge de IE University con Department of State y Microsoft spain-india.org/es/noticia/des…

"Fatphobia causes everyone to hate their bodies, regardless of size. Fatphobia does not cause thinness, it causes shame."

Applications for CAIDE's 2023 Seed Funding are closing this Friday! If you are working on a project exploring the ethical, legal, technical or policy challenges of automated tools providing expertise in the field, see if you are eligible for funding here: unimelb.edu.au/caide/research…

📣 New Project Alert! We are delighted to officially announce our project under Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺's Cyber and Critical Technology Cooperation Program Ambassador for Cyber Affairs & Critical Technology & so excited to head to Viet Nam next week to meet with our partners & begin! 🇻🇳 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/9res JeannieMariePaterson

That sunset Centre for AI and Digital Ethics tho 🫠 😍 Melbourne Connect University of Melbourne

Advances in AI holds the potential for revolutionary improvements in health care, but also present risks & raises questions for existing laws. Prof Flood from Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa will be exploring these questions Melbourne Law School on 27 Apr, register for the event here: events.unimelb.edu.au/CAIDE/event/29…

🇻🇳 JeannieMariePaterson @tmiller_unimelb Fahimeh Abedi Gabby Bush and Nhung Nguyen Thi were delighted to spend 4 days in Viet Nam with the Ministry of Justice teaching New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies! Ambassador for Cyber Affairs & Critical Technology Menzies Foundation Melbourne Law School University of Melbourne @engunimelb

We are very excited to host Prof David J. Gunkel, @engunimelb's Film Festival on 17 May. Join us for a screening of Robot + Frank and a discussion from a leading scholar in the field of AI and robot ethics. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/crime-and-ar… Simon Coghlan

Predictive Algorithms: Help or Hindrance? They can increase efficiency and convenience in our lives but this tech does not come without its flaws, and there are numerous ethical concerns regarding its use, read Centre for AI and Digital Ethics intern Khadijah Majid's blog: unimelb.edu.au/caide/news-med…

"The work of ethics is ostensibly inexhaustible." Prof David J. Gunkel presenting at Melbourne Connect University of Melbourne Computing & Information Systems UniMelb Simon Coghlan

Do social media platforms serve as the modern public square? Is the use of AI tech inherently deceitful? Faculty of Arts CAIDE intern Bri Hines explores the spreading of false information on social media, & bots used by political parties in this blog piece: go.unimelb.edu.au/7h8s

We've just had a pandemic. Many countries have nuclear weapons that are ready to go. The most powerful AI we know how to build predicts word sequences. This is not the same threat and it distracts from actual threats from contemporary AI models.

On behalf of the young Kenyans whose lives have been ruined because they did the dirty work training the #ChatGPT algorithm, we have filed a petition to National Assembly KE to investigate how OpenAI and Samasource got away with such exploitation and to urgently regulate tech work.

Lawyers working in Australia advising on technology, please consider spending 20 mins filling out our survey to help understand how we can build better capacity in the Australian legal sector. M.L.

How can the legal profession effectively respond to emerging technology? We're seeking responses from lawyers (both private or in-house) working in Australia who provide legal advice about emerging technology to complete this brief survey, closing soon! go.unimelb.edu.au/m8vs

We’re honoured to be back with our colleagues in Viet Nam, discussing how generative AI can be used in policy decision making and the law, and the ethics of these technologies. Thank you to the Ministry of Justice and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 for supporting this project. JeannieMariePaterson Shaanan Cohney

I love the idea of this connecting people through digital & art, but why Dublin to New York? Why not NY to Yangon, Dublin to Addis Ababa. A missed opportunity to connect across the *whole* globe, not just the parts we already know #digitalart

Writing the manifesto for our forthcoming book—with four women scholars I greatly admire—is taking the edge off this dreary rainy Wednesday! ✨Dr. Vanessa Bartlett Gabby Bush @hellojasmin Emilie K. Sunde: data-browser.net/db11.html ✨ Open Humanities