By Audrey Mitchell, PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor/Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about the Theranos founder is like a fun-house mirror maze: the more you see, the less you know what’s going on
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) safety regulator, which will enforce penalties for frontier AI companies that breach their obligations.
The government is also considering criminal law changes to deal with serious misconduct by any of these companies.
The measures are targeted at frontier AI companies – those building the largest, most advanced models.
At a news conference shortly before leaving for the COP climate conference in Turkey, the prime minister outlined AI safety and security protections that will be…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former lawmaker and veteran pro-democracy activist Au Kam San during an interview in Macao, October 7, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Bertha Wang (London) – A court in Macao, a special administrative region of China, sentenced the former lawmaker and democracy activist Au Kam San to 12.5 years in prison on November 6, 2026, on baseless national security charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Macao’s Court of First Instance, in the first publicly known case under the city’s national security law, convicted Au on five charges involving “subversion of state power,” “establishing…
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By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
An unprecedented MMP election result suggests the tectonic plates of New Zealand politics are drifting, with the electoral rules struggling to compensate.
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By Christopher Anderson, Learning Facilitator, Health Sciences, Torrens University Australia
When you picture an older person, you may imagine someone shorter and slightly stooped. It’s not just your imagination: most of us gradually lose some height as we age.
But how does it happen, when and by how much?
Here’s what the science says, and when it can signal an underlying health problem.
Our spine changes structure
Most lasting height loss happens in the spine. Think of the spine as a tower of bony blocks separated by water-filled cushions. The blocks are the vertebrae, and the cushions are intervertebral discs.
Over time, these…
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By Damiano Spina, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
Last week, Google announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy for schools that use Google apps. It provides new settings for opting in or out of AI products on student accounts. For schools that reject AI in the classroom entirely, they can also turn off search.
Speaking to The…
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By Jack Vowles, Professor of Political Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Current overhang provisions skew proportional representation and provide incentives to distort the electoral system. But finding a fair solution is proving difficult.
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By Manuela Fuchs, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Microbiology, University of Otago
Leah Smith, Research Fellow in Microbiology, University of Otago
Natalie Kyte, Postdoctoral Researcher, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology & Infection Medicine Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Bacteriophages could help fight antibiotic-resistant infections. New research reveals how their genes work – and may help scientists engineer more effective viruses.
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By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
Artificial intelligence (AI) use among university students is now near-universal in many countries. Yet, as of a year ago, fewer than one in five universities in a 90-country UNESCO survey had a formal AI policy.
Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, the threat to academic integrity has loomed large. Unis must now ensure students earn degrees by showing what they can do, not what AI can do.
This requires policies that drive structural change to assessment and curriculum,…
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By Kelly Matthews, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching & Learning), University of Wollongong
Tim Fawns, Associate Professor (Education Focused), Monash University
We asked more than 10,000 students about how they use artificial intelligence for study and how they feel about the technology. This is what we found.
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