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Dr Alan Finkel took over as Australia’s Chief Scientist in January this year. In this exclusive interview, he describes his approach to science, and to issues such as renewable energy and STEM jobs.
2015 was a year where we expanded our view of the universe, embraced new technologies and got a hint of the profound changes to come.
There are growing concerns about robots, artificial intelligence and automation. Now two new organisations are seeking to produce responsible robots and advance beneficial AI.
Automated vehicles are set to shake up the business model of the automotive industry, resulting in less people owning cars and many more sharing instead.
Trials of autonomous vehicles are set to kick off in Australia this year. So how far down the road to driverless cars are we today?
A new report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies paints a picture of Australia’s technological future.
Have questions about artificial intelligence or the future of robotics? Wondering if your job is vulnerable to automation? Concerned about superintelligent AI? Now’s your chance to ask.
In a report released this week, the Foundation for Young Australians claims that up to 70% of young people are currently preparing for jobs that will no longer exist in the future.
By embracing science and technology, Australia’s agricultural industry could be more efficient, productive and sustainable.
We can give robots smiling mouths but until we can put emotion into their eyes as well we’re better off with less human-looking designs.
Up to five million Australian jobs could disappear with the next 15 years and technology advances and leads to more automation. So what should we do?
If you leaving school today to embark on a career, what should you study to protect your job from automation and outsourcing?
The more we automate jobs, the more we need to find new jobs for people, especially if the government wants us to stay in the workforce longer. That’s going to take some clever thinking.
More STEM education isn’t a bad thing, but if we want to safeguard our jobs from being taken by machines, we need more emphasis on the humanities.
Experts in the field of human factors – how people interact with machines – warn that “self-driving” cars need to be more of a cooperative effort between human driver and tech than the hype would suggest.
Reaping the rewards and avoiding the pitfalls of an increasingly digital economy will take more effort than politicians are currently putting in.
An ever-increasing number of our consumer electronics is internet-connected. We’re living at the dawn of the age of the Internet of Things. Appliances ranging from light switches and door locks, to cars…
The belief that technology can automate education and replace teachers is pervasive. Framed in calls for greater efficiency, this belief is present in today’s educational innovations, reform endeavours…
If Google chairman Eric Schmidt is to be believed, the automation of jobs will be the “defining” problem of the next two to three decades. At a debate at Davos 2014, he warned that the constant development…
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Technology and Organisation, University of Manchester
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Professor of Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Human Systems Labs, University of Windsor
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey