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Vivid Sydney’s drone disaster shows why ensuring autonomous aircraft can perform safe, emergency landings must be a priority.
More autonomous AI systems that can use tools and work in teams are becoming increasingly common.
AI has limited military functions that still require a huge amount of human input.
If we’re going to put an AI brain somewhere, it’s likely going to be a robot. The next step – making that robot immortal.
Diverging views on automated weapons systems could make it difficult for Australia and New Zealand to manage military ties at a delicate time in trans-Tasman relations.
Between driverless cars, autonomous weapons and AI-powered medical diagnostic tools, it seems there will be no shortage of ethically-complex situations involving AI in the future.
Almost two years after crashing twice within five months and being pulled out of service, the Boeing 737 Max’s return to the skies has now been approved.
Driverless vehicles rely heavily on sensors to navigate the world. They’re vulnerable to attack if bad actors trick them into ‘seeing’ things that aren’t there, potentially leading to deadly crashes.
A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
Modified commercial drones are getting more powerful and can easily be turned into weapons. A researcher argues for ways to prevent their development.
Sending autonomous vehicles to the Southern Ocean can be fraught with anxiety, especially if one of them doesn’t make radio contact when it’s supposed to.
Autonomous mass transit vehicles like ‘trackless trams’ are a better bet than autonomous cars to give us people-friendly cities that capture the value created by infrastructure for the common good.
Drones already help with search and rescue, but teaching machines to identify victims on their own could free up human rescuers to do other crucial work.
The debate on autonomous weapons isn’t paying enough attention to the technology already in use.
Supply-chain experts see reliable data, STEM education and smarter regulation as essential for Australia to succeed in an increasingly automated world under pressure to be environmentally sustainable.
If government and industry overhype autonomous vehicles, the public may expect too much, be disappointed and reject the new technology.
If autonomous vehicles are going to be safer than human drivers, they’ll need to improve their ability to perceive and understand their surroundings – and become the ultimate defensive drivers.
An expert in artificial intelligence believes we’re not ready for the challenges posed by Saudi Arabia granting a robot citizenship. Key questions about robot identity and rights remain unanswered.
If all the elements in the transportation system are going to talk to each other, the people at the companies and government agencies that make those items need to talk to each other too.
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
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Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Research Fellow – Supply Chain Strategy, Deakin University
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Professor, Cyber Physical Systems, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of University of Florida Transportation Institute, University of Florida
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Professor, School of Systems and Computing, UNSW
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Professor in Information Science, University of Otago
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Associate Professor in Computational Logic, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
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Workday Professor of Technology and Society, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Director, Assuring Autonomy International Programme, University of York
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Research Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration