By Sven Bilén, Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
Starship’s heat shield is made of up of an array of ceramic tiles. Each is a small component, but together they have large consequences.
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By Deven Desai, Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Associate Director for Law, Policy, and Ethics at the Machine Learning Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government is strengthening its defences against rogue AI activity in the wake of the OpenAI breach of a government website and ahead of the report from a taskforce it established to investigate the incident.
A direction has been given to departments to “harden” cyber security defences on their “legacy” technology systems.
The Australian Signals Directorate reported…
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By Jamaica Cass, Associate Dean, Indigenous Health, York University, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario
Commitments to Indigenous health research cannot be clawed back as part of proposed dismantling of equity, diversity and inclusion criteria for federal research funding.
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By Matt King, Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
Nancy A.N. Bertler, Professor of Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Earth Sciences New Zealand
If all the ice in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, it would raise global sea levels 3 to 4 metres. It happened before – at temperatures we’re heading towards
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By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago
Economic growth may have returned to NZ, but lifting living standards will require more than a cyclical recovery. What should voters be looking for in policies?
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By Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Ph.D. Fellow, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University
An offensive in the Tigray region followed months of aerial strikes by the Ethiopian government. The situation could spark a wider regional conflict.
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By Alan Renwick, Professor of Democratic Politics, UCL
Andy Burnham has announced a national commission on electoral reform, and made a commitment to put changing the voting system in Labour’s next general election manifesto.
The implication seems to be that he wants to enact reform without a referendum. That aspiration is understandable. The UK last held a referendum on the voting system in 2011, when the coalition government put the Alternative Vote (AV) system on the ballot paper. As research has shown, reformers can fairly argue that…
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By Armin Alimardani, Senior Lecturer in Law and Emerging Technologies, Western Sydney University
Melissa Porter, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Wollongong
Warwick Gullett, Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
Three years ago, researchers tested AI on real Australian law exams and it struggled. They wanted to know if this is still the case.
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By Viva Hammer, Distinguished Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia is on track to have more deaths than births by the 2060s. Other countries grapple with the same problem. Are they doing better than us?
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