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Have you registered for the October Meetup on Autonomous Weapons? meetup.com/en-AU/Responsi…

Yet another stellar line up for the next Melbourne Responsible AI meet up. And yet again, I'll be out of town on the night! D'oh!

Tonight join Prof Rob Sparrow, Dr Lizzie Silver and Matilda Byrne as they discuss AI in Weapons meetup.com/en-AU/Responsi…

This is a wonderful paper that should be read by every ML researcher concerned with explainability. I dont know how it escape my attention. I would shorten it more, skip the "according to so and so.." and present ML folks with a computer-minded taxonomy of explanation #Bookofwhy

Tonight we'll hear from the Cyber Con speaker Thomas Drake whose talk was cancelled last minute. He was slated to deliver a speech on surveillance and national security. Want to know more? Listen in from 7pm 3rrrfm

Looking forward to catching up with Vanessa Toholka & Dan Morganti in studio for Byte Into IT tonight. Particularly excited to talk to NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake about cybercon, censorship, and the state of free speech in Australia. x.com/byteintoit/sta…

Join us at Computing & Information Systems UniMelb and Digital Citizens @ MLS for Valentino Dignum's talk "Ensuring Trustworthy AI: From Principles to Action" from 5:30pm on Wed 27 Nov. Followed by thoughts from Fiona Borrelli (Sargon), Jess Perrin (InfoXchange) and Antony Ugoni (Seek). Register: law.unimelb.edu.au/events/details…

"Uber’s system [self-driving car] was not equipped to identify or deal with pedestrians walking outside of a crosswalk." A driver who said they only look for pedestrians at crosswalks would surely be classed incompetent, and lose their licence, right? wired.com/story/ubers-se…

We're busy planning another year full of events and activities to promote opportunities for women and gender minorities in data science and machine learning. Nominate yourself, another or your meetup idea with this form forms.gle/UFc3HXM7h8PA8B…

For our Nov Meetup we'll be doing something a little different... We'll be discussing AI Ethics Fails in an attempt to understand where we've gone wrong in the past and how to minimize these issues in the future. bit.ly/2pYEIKc

If you can’t make next week's meetuo or if you have a story you want to share but don’t want to actually narrate the story yourself, you’re welcome to share anonymously through our typeform: bit.ly/2NSbVid

Responsible AI is on tomorrow night - who’s coming along?

How to recognise AI snake oil. Great talk!

All set for tonight's meetup. Come on down to @EliizaAI for a fun night full chats about Ethical AI Fails

And a way we go 🤖

Oh wow 🤩 what a lovely morning surprise to see Ethics Litmus Tests get a mention in the (always excellent) Dense Discovery newsletter 💌

Our next meetup is next week... have you RSVP'd? bit.ly/3bN5fND

I can't believe Australian Dept of Health, Disability and Ageing is still saying "The dataset does not contain the personal information of patients." We have shown many of the patients' records can be easily and confidently identified from a few points of medical or childbirth info. theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol

Hey folks, We've decided to cancel our March meetup with IxDA Melbourne. Please look after yourselves and each other xx