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ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making & Society

Locality: Carlton, Victoria, Australia

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25.01.2022 Project Launch: Help Us Shed Light on 'Dark Ads' The ADM+S Centre launched its latest data donation project October 1. We ask members of the public to assist in providing accountability for online advertising. To learn more about the project and how you can participate watch our video and visit the project Website https://www.admscentre.org.au/adobservatory/

24.01.2022 Examining the boundaries of law and technology The cross-disciplinary approach to humanising automated decision-making Sydney Law School academic, Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, explores how automated decision-making will improve human decision-making while keeping within the boundaries of legal standards.... Professor Kimberlee Weatherall was recently appointed as Chief Investigator at the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). The appointment forms part of a broader cross-disciplinary research collaboration with ADM+S, which brings together a range of collaborators with the goal of developing responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making. Read more below

24.01.2022 We are looking for exceptional candidate to apply for the Chief Operating Officer for the ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making & Society!! Working in close partnership with the Centre Director, Associate Director and research leaders, the Chief Operating Officer will provide the overall management and administrative leadership of the Centre of Excellence across the participating universities and industry partner organisations in Australia and overseas. This includes super...vision of a distributed team of administrative, finance, and education, outreach and communications staff. As the successful candidate, you will have highly developed skills and experience in strategic and operational business planning in a research environment. You will have exceptional relationship management skills with the demonstrated ability to develop effective strategic and operational relationships with key stakeholders across Australia and overseas. Please see below for more details and share with anyone you think could be a good fit!

23.01.2022 Drone Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Symposium This three-day symposium brings together academics, artists and researchers to explore drone cultures from multiple perspectives and practices with the aim of generating dialogue across disciplinary boundaries to better understand the diversity of drones and drone cultures. How has drone vision influenced contemporary visual culture? ... How do practices, aesthetics, techniques and technologies move back and forth between military and non-military contexts? How have artists, writers and filmmakers critiqued, adopted and innovated drone technologies? How have drones changed how power is exercised and experienced? What cultures have sprung up around drones in conservation, activism, amateur photography and other contexts? How are drones and other remote sensing systems shaping and shaped by our desires and imaginaries? What does the proliferation of drones mean for the future of the human? DECEMBER 8-10 Drone Cultures will be held live on Zoom, with Caren Kaplan’s Keynote lecture also streamed to YouTube Live and available for viewing after the event. Session times and other information is available via the Eventbrite link below and at the Symposium Website. For more information and to register click below. REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE NOW https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drone-cultures-an-interdisc

22.01.2022 In partnership with the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology and Telstra, we are proud to launch the first findings from our refreshed 2021 Australian Digital Inclusion Index. Join us on Friday 15 October to find out how Australia is tracking, gain insights for better digital inclusion programs, and take a first look at the new dashboards which put the Index data in your hands. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gNKjieAG... #australiandigitalinclusionindex #adii #digitaldivide RMIT University

22.01.2022 Interact with an expert panel, discussing whether the Australian Law Reform Commission should inquire into the regulation of automated decision making. In 2019, the ALRC undertook research and broad public consultation, asking: What are the most pressing areas for law reform in Australia today? In December, the ALRC published its report, The Future of Law Reform: A Suggested Program of Work 2020-25. ... An exciting collaboration of ADM+S Centre and the ALRC, this webinar is part of a series to gain feedback and further input on some of the ALRC’s suggested future law reform inquiry topics. Join an expert panel comprising thought leaders on automated decision making and administrative law addressing questions such as: Should administrative law reform be a priority in light of increasing automation in decision making by government agencies? What are the particular problems that any future law reform inquiry should seek to solve? What benefits might be expected from reform? Find out more below.

21.01.2022 Listen to the latest ADM+S podcast. We chat with Kath Albury about her ARC Future Fellowship research 'Digital and data literacies for sexual health practices.' Kath’s research will engage young adult users of digital apps and social platforms with sexual health policy-makers and professionals to develop knowledge-translation resources for sexual health professionals. https://anchor.fm/adms-centre

17.01.2022 ABC NSW's Ewan Gilbert breaks down the relationship between technology and older Australians with Dr. Bernardo Figueiredo, an expert in consumer culture and marketing at RMIT University.

15.01.2022 In a recent article in @ConversationEDU and radio interview with @abcinsydney, ADM+S PhD Candidate Lauren Kelly examines the pandemic home-delivery boom pushing automation and precarious work in Australian supermarkets. Read more: https://www.admscentre.org.au/australian-supermarkets-move/

14.01.2022 Autonomy, Disability, Diversity: Everyday Practices of Technology Institute for Culture and Society The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS)(opens in new window) is a research institute within Western Sydney University. ...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Anyone else finding it easier to get everyone together for meetings since lock down? This week we had a fantastic turn out for our Data Program workshop and establishment working group. These groups are working on getting all the pieces in place for the Centre to officially commence mid-year and creating and refining our research agenda and collaboration strategy. ... Needless to say, online collaboration will be key as we have partners all over Australia and the world, and this era is giving us lots of practice at making it work well! Photo by The Coherent Team on Unsplash

13.01.2022 [#AImistakes] On October 20, Inverness (in the north of Scotland) decided to use AI managed cameras in its football games, the first against Ayr. However, they did not consider that one of the linesman was bald. Hence, many times the camera focused on his head instead of the ball! This is the typical problem of deep learning models, many times they understand the syntax (a round white ball) but not the semantics. ... A human will never do this type of mistakes because we know that: 1) A ball cannot be all the time where a person should have his head (that is, a person should have a head) 2) The ball cannot be all the time outside the field although looks inside the field 3) We expect the ball to be near the players, not the linesman 4) We expect the ball to move from one position to another, cannot be teleported to the head of a person ..... etc. That is, we understand the semantics of the game and we may miss the ball if it is behind the players, but we will never try to find it in the head of someone that is far from the action. This is a funny example, most are not funny. More embarrassment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoJP2FkpgU Thank you so much Ricardo Baeza-Yates for the original post, and Mark Sanderson for tagging us!

12.01.2022 From café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and largely overlooked by social researchers, this technology has driven the rise of the smartphone and broadband internet, and is now a vital element in the next wave of automation. Join Centre Director Prof Julian Thomas as he reviews the history of Wi-Fi and describes its immediate prospects, including its relations to high speed 5G cellular services, and its possible longer-run social futures, which may hinge upon its uniquely decentralised and inclusive capabilities for automation. Register here: https://www.rmit.edu.au/eve/2021/september/why-wifi-matters

12.01.2022 The term 'ethical AI' is finally starting to mean something - interesting read below

12.01.2022 The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making in these domains. Our Centre combines leading researchers from the humanities, social and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network. We work with technologists, policy-makers, and public communicators. ... We aim to enhance public understanding, inform public debate, and train a new generation of researchers and practitioners in this challenging new field. The Centre will officially commence mid 2020. And we can't wait to share more with you!

12.01.2022 Our ADM+S Associate Investigator, Emeritus Prof Terry Carney, recently spoke on an ABC podcast about Robodebt: https://www.abc.net.au//progr/rearvision/robodebt/12946354

12.01.2022 A very special opportunity to work with Sarah on some exciting and ground breaking work! This will be an incredible role for the right person. Please do share!

12.01.2022 Interesting read

11.01.2022 Three of our researchers have received a combined total of $1,276,682 in funding from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme for 2022. Congratulations to Sarah Erfani, Timothy Graham and Jathan Sadowski on this incredible achievement. Read more: https://www.admscentre.org.au/adms-researchers-receive-dis/

11.01.2022 Responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

11.01.2022 Ready to progress your career? Join our centre of leading researchers as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Machine Learning. More details here: https://bit.ly/3t42T5O

09.01.2022 Automating Society Report 2020 - by Algorithm Watch 'Life in the automated society: How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it'

09.01.2022 Register now for the ADM+S News & Media Research Symposium 30 September & 1 October 2021. Find out the latest research on how platforms, data & automation are transforming the creation, curation, & dissemination of news, media & entertainment content #ADMSNM21 https://www.admscentre.org.au/research-symposium/

09.01.2022 Thank you to the 900+ citizen scientists who have joined the Australian Search Experience! Help reach 1,000+ participants and support research at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society investigating how search engines shape our search results. www.admscentre.org.au/searchexperience

09.01.2022 ADM+S Partner Investigator Professor Karen Yeung is giving a keynote for the Swedish Network on Automated Decision-Making in the Public Sector next week. She says: "The turn to data-driven approaches within public administration to inform (and even to automate) public sector decision-making can be understood as an emerging movement that I call the ‘New Public Analytics’ (‘NPA’). Central to the New Public Analytics is the turn to digital automation and the use of ‘data analy...tics,’ a form of computational analysis that has its theoretical foundations in data science and statistics, involving the application of software algorithms (including but not limited to machine learning algorithms) to large data sets in order to identify patterns and correlations in the data capable of generating ‘actionable’ insight. In this talk, I will offer a brief overview of the basic logics and features of this emerging paradigm. I will then compare NPA with its predecessor, the New Public Management ('NPM'). In particular, I will trace the evolution of NPM through the rise of risk analysis and risk management in public administration towards the emergence of this new paradigm. In so doing, I will argue that NPA can be understood as qualitatively different and distinct from NPM, despite considerable continuity. Finally, I will argue that although recent scholarship has appropriately highlighted the importance of attending to the political dimensions of the rise of the digitisation and datafication in the public sector, we must also attend to their constitutional implications and which have not yet received the sustained interrogation which I believe is both necessary and urgent. The lecture is open to all (Zoom link provided via link below) https://www.sh.se//2020-11-16-open-lecture-karen-yeung-fro

08.01.2022 Congratulations to ADM+S researchers Kath Albury, Paul Harpur, and Nic Suzor who have been awarded ARC Future Fellowships. Read more about their research projects at https://www.admscentre.org.au/arc-future-fellowships-award/

08.01.2022 On September 17th, @Prostasia Foundation will be co-hosting a Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Consent and Safety in Adult Content Distribution. Hear from the experts and people most impacted on how image-based sexual abuse can be eliminated from online platforms, while preserving space for consensual adult content. Register here: https://consentandsafety.net/

08.01.2022 Great profile of my RMIT and ADM+S colleagues Damiano Spina Valenti and what he thinks sets RMIT apart for IT studies.

05.01.2022 Prof Axel Bruns will be presenting "Can Mis- and Disinformation Push Societies to the Brink?" 6pm, 30 Sept | QUT Kelvin Grove and online. https://blogs.qut.edu.au//can-mis-and-dis-information-pus/

04.01.2022 The Australian Ad Observatory is asking for your help. Please install our data donation browser plugin, to help Australian researchers at the ADM+S Centre investigate how online advertising targets Australian internet users. Join here https://www.admscentre.org.au/adobservatory

02.01.2022 Automated decision making systems are things like a set of traffic lights or a robot in a car or computer manufacturing facility. But automation is no longer just about robots making things: increasingly, it involves computers making decisions. We rely on computers to process data, make predictions, apply rules, choose actions and determine outcomes. ... Automated decision-making comprises an expanding array of intelligent technologies from deep learning to blockchains which promise to solve challenging problems across many sectors, from healthcare and social services to transport and media. This is what the ADM+S Centre aims to explore - what are the implications? How can these technologies be used as safely, fairly and effectively as possible? Photo by Liam Seskis on Unsplash

01.01.2022 So proud of our colleagues incredible work! The ACOLA (Australian Council of Learned Academies) horizon scanning report on 'The Internet of Things' is released today. It has strong connections to the ADM+S Centre - Gerard Goggin and Deborah Lupton were on the Expert Working Group and are co-authors, Director of the Centre, Julian Thomas was a peer reviewer, and several other members contributed content.... The report cans be downloaded here: https://acola.org/hs5-internet-of-things-australia/