Using GPTs to assist with AI governance policy.
Using GPT4-Turbo to summarise AI governance docs and generate advice to the Australian government. Continue Reading …
EXPERT REACTION: Australia signs international AI declaration – what next?
Today, the Australian Science Media Centre released some short remarks from Australian AI experts on the Bletchley Declaration last week. Including a short remark from yours truly (though I’m not quite yet a Dr as the webpage indicates – a Continue Reading …
Lecture at Uni Sydney Business School
Course: “Leading in a Post Crisis World” Series: Research Connections I was delighted to be invited to give a lecture to postgraduate students undertaking a relatively new business leadership course. The course providers (including Craig Gilliver and Adrian Harms) have Continue Reading …
Paws and perspectives: inclusivity in GenAI evaluation design.
This sneak peek of some of my doctoral work simply explains the conceptual ideas beyond one of the chapters of my PhD thesis. The work looks at how bias can be embedded in evaluations of generative AI systems. I gave Continue Reading …
AI Constitutions, Visual Subjectivity, and Experiments with GPT4-V(ision).
While AI Constitutions aren’t the ultimate solution for the GenAI value alignment problem, they make another valuable contribution to our evolving AI ethics toolkits. Nevertheless, as with all AI Ethics methods, we need to be mindful that there is no Continue Reading …
Acknowledged for contributions to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s report.
In June 2023, I was honoured to be included on one of the expert panels consulting to Australia’s Commissioner for eSafety on the topic of Generative AI (GenAI). In addition to a virtual panel, I was able to provide the Continue Reading …
Generative AI is Human
I was invited to speak on a great panel on 14th July 2023 as part of a symposium run by the ADM+S Centre. The moderator was the wonderful Prof Flora Salim! The topic was “Modelling the Complex World with Generative Continue Reading …
ChatRegs23 An AI policy thinktank
19th July 2023 On the 19th July I convened a follow-up to the April ChatLLM23 conference. ChatRegs was a thinktank of invited experts that workshopped the questions in the Australian Government Feedback portal (closes today) on the future of AI Continue Reading …
Cave Painting and GenAI
Originally posted on Linkedin July 2023 I was reading about early cave painting yesterday with thoughts trundling along the path of “history and philosophy of tech”. Specifically, I was thinking about ancient cave painting and ho it relates to GenAI Continue Reading …
I asked GPT4 to “Explain why language models cannot have sentience.”
This is what it said (copied exactly the way it came out). “Language models, like other AI systems, cannot have sentience because they lack several key attributes that characterize sentient beings, such as consciousness, feelings, and self-awareness. Here, I’ll explain Continue Reading …
Your brain and predictive processing
Originally posted on Linkedin June 2023 in response to a post by Martin Ciupa. Predictive processing is the idea that our brains are constantly predicting what is about to happen around us, and using that to construct models of reality. Continue Reading …
X-riskers think differently
Originally from a Linkedin post as well as some of my comments on Andrew Ng’s post. I am not an x-risker. I am a generative AI ethicist that talks about grounded things like centralisation of power, normative biases in evaluation Continue Reading …
Australia’s AI Acid Test
I originally posted this article on Medium. Reflections from a Generative AI Ethicist at The University of Sydney.Two reports released on 1st June 2023 signal the Australian government is prepared to take AI risks seriously, but it needs to respond Continue Reading …
The reversed Turing Test.
Originally posted on Linkedin in May 2023 Are we teaching young university students to pass a reversed Turing test? Yesterday I was teaching 1st year undergraduates University of Sydney in the Faculty Science in a faculty-wide unit run by the Philosophy of Continue Reading …
The Genie on Your Couch
Originally posted on Linkedin 16th May 2023 in response to an article in the Washington Post about the US Senate Hearing on Generative AI that included Sam Altman on the panel. In the Land-of-Runaway-Capitalism, today the public was invited to Continue Reading …
Two articles in the AFR
Within a few weeks I published two articles in the Australian Financial Review 4th May 2023 When the ‘Godfather of AI’ quits, we all need to start thinking “Mechanics don’t set road rules, so techies must not define the AI Continue Reading …
ChatLLM23
On the 28th April I convened what is (to-date) the largest conference ever held in Australia on the ethical risks and impacts of Generative AI. The full day event consisted of three speaker streams, +34 speakers, +100 attendees in person, Continue Reading …
A conversation with Alex Hanna
17th August 2022 Our group “PhD Students in AI ethics” and our member Becca Sanaeikia are excited to announce the esteemed Alex Hanna, Ph.D. will be joining us for a fireside chat about AI and gender on 17th August.
AI image generation – Wombo
I was playing around with the WOMBO DREAM app today to generate original images from text prompts, and decided to share some here. Wombo is a Canadian app that according to their website was launched 28th February, 2021. Their first Continue Reading …
My group, PhD Students in AI Ethics, put on a conference.
A group that I founded at the end of 2020 called PhD Students in AI Ethics just had their first public facing conference – and it was a huge success! We called the conference #PhDAIethics2021 Research Vignettes. Over two sessions Continue Reading …