Past Articles and Papers

Humanising Machine Intelligence: Articles and research papers

Celebrating HMI - Originally published on HMI website

 

Photo by George Prentzas on Unsplash

 

On 13 December 2023, HMI ran a workshop exploring AI development and the future of integrated AI.

The workshop opened with a keynote address by Xiao-Li Meng and James Bailie from Harvard University titled ‘Privacy, Data Privacy and Differential Privacy’. Following the keynote address was a session on HMI Research Highlights, touching on the four years of research HMI has done as AI and human morality continue to intertwine. Presentations were made by Katherine Bode, Katrina Sluis, Ziyu Chen, Lydia Lucchesi, Rahul Shome, Nick Schuster, Lexing Xie and Sujatha Raman.  

The workshop continued with presentations of eight selected seed grants that will continue under HMI. The seed grant recipients’ topics ranged from the integration of computing with climate change and weather patterns, to the fusion of AI in the creatives. The recipients of the seed grants are as follow:

Human-Machine Aesthetics by Katherine Bode and Sabrina Bleecker Caldwell

Virtues of Robot Inaction: Towards Theories of Automated Reasoning of Inaction in Human Contexts by Rahul Shome

Privacy-Preserving Perception for Robotics by Yunzhong Hou, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome and Michael Barnes

Chasing Storms with AI-Enhanced DAS, Seismic and Infra-sound Arrays by Rhys Hawkins, Voon Hui Lai and  Chengxin Jiang

Ways of Seeing Datasets: Toward Socio-Cultural Understanding of Machine Vision by Katrina Sluis and Liang Zheng

ANU Bushfire Smoke Dataset by Gao Zhu, Nick Wilson, Weihao Li and Nick Barnes

Cross-Domain Sampling Methods for Greener High-Performance Computing by Dr Amanda Parker and FHEA

Advancing Machine Learning-Assisted Modelling of Sea Ice Dynamics by Quanling Deng and Andrew Kiss

The third session was a panel on Generative AI and Large Language Models moderated by Katherine Bode with Thang Bui, Rahul Shome, Yaya Lu, Adrian Mackenzie and Milicent Weber as panellists. This was followed by breakout sessions on the Future of HMI, focusing on AI in government and policy, active research topics on generative AI, and generation questions on AI. HMI Director, Lexing Xie, ended the workshop with summaries of the breakout sessions and imagining integrated AI.

In its initial launch in 2018, HMI’s focus was on research of ethics and the morality of AI to encourage cross-college collaboration. As AI evolved, so has HMI’s scope. Four years into the research initiative, HMI has produced work in the social impact of AI implementation, diagnoses of complex infrastructure, social media, and market attention. It has also explored how AI can contribute to the general understanding of STEM and the public good. Moving forward, HMI will broaden its scope towards integrated AI. This continues to fall in line with HMI’s mission of transdisciplinary research in addressing social and scientific problems, as well as supporting creative and cultural practices. 

 

Reddit removes millions of pro-Trump posts. But advertisers, not values, rule the day

 

From 2 July 2020

Article written by Jenny L Davis and Simon Copland for The Conversation

Large-scale facial recognition is incompatible with a free society

 

From 10 July 2020

Article written by Seth Lazar, Claire Benn and Mario Günther for The Conversation

The Trouble with Zoom

 

From 24 March 2020

Article written by Patrick Doyle, James Mortensen and Damian Cliffor for Financial Review

Video conferences are now king. But a popular technology could be putting corporate privacy at risk with little power to prevent it.

Data Sharing is Not Always Caring

 

From 25 March 2020

Article written by Claire Benn onMedium.

Techno-Activism and the Vestiges of Hope

 

From 13 November 2020

Written by Jenny L Davis for TypeHuman.

 

What are affordances? An interview with Jenny L. Davis

 

An interview with Jenny L Davis on DisAssemble

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Study on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications

 

Seth Lazar has been invited to join the study committee for the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine Study on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications.

We’re Sleepwalking Into a World of Mass Surveillance

 

From 30 April 2020

Written by Seth Lazar

Don’t (just) blame echo chambers. Conspiracy theorists actively seek out their online communities

 

From 19 November 2019

Written by Colin Klein, Adam Dunn and Peter Clutton, with full paper here

Documents

Model Law on the Registration of Algorithmic Decision-Systems by Professor Will Bateman

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Legal Audit of AI in the Public Sector by Will Bateman

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