Responsible Artificial Intelligence
We are an independent, nonprofit research institute that works to build ethics, accountability and transparency into AI systems: developing new algorithms, training organisations operating AI systems and providing technical guidance for AI policy development.
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Gradient Fellow Chris Dolman awarded Actuary of the Year
15 September 2022
Gradient Institute Fellow Chris Dolman has been awarded Actuary of the Year by the Actuaries Institute of Australia. Some excerpts from the official announcement:
Australia's original disruptive festival is back for 2022
24 August 2022
We're excited for this important event run by our long-time collaborators The Ethics Centre! Truth, trust, tech, tattoos, and taboos: Australia’s original disruptive festival, the Festival of...
Yaya Lu joint Gradient Institute as Senior Consultant
2 June 2022
Yaya’s background includes researcher and business analyst in the Australian Public Service, focusing on generating user-centric outputs to address Whole-of-Government and agency needs. With a...
Policy submission on the regulation of AI and automated decision making
24 May 2022
Gradient Institute submitted a response to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Digital Technology Taskforce Issues Paper “Positioning Australia as a Leader in Digital Economy...
Future.NSW
4 May 2022
Future.NSW presented by NSW Government held their thought-leadership event on the 2nd May, 2022. The event brought together the public, the private sector, business and industry leaders and experts...
Caution: metaverse ahead
21 April 2022
Gradient Institute’s Chief Practitioner, Lachlan McCalman wrote this latest blog post about the metaverse on Medium. The post argues that the metaverse has the potential to have a profound impact...
Gradient Institute Awarded Linkage Grant
12 April 2022
Our Linkage Grant Proposal “Socially Responsible Insurance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” has been approved by the Australian Research Council.
De-risking automated decisions
16 March 2022
Today, in collaboration with Minderoo Foundation, we are releasing a report on de-risking automated decisions, which includes practical guidance for AI governance and AI risk management.
AI Impact Control Panel
16 March 2022
In partnership with Minderoo Foundation, Gradient Institute has released the first version of our AI impact control panel software. This tool helps decision-makers balance and constrain their...
Designing a practical approach to AI fairness
22 February 2022
Gradient Institute, along with collaborators from ServiceNow, Vector Institute and The University of Tübingen, just published an article in the January edition of IEEE Computer laying out...
Case Studies
Australian Human Rights Commission
Gradient Institute worked with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), the Consumer Policy Research Centre, CHOICE and CSIRO’s Data61 to develop a report on algorithmic bias. This formed...
Monetary Authority of Singapore
We collaboratively developed a methodology, metrics and tools to enable financial institutions to evaluate their AI and data analytics solutions against the Fairness, Ethics, Accountability and...
ACT Education Directorate
In collaboration with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Education Directorate, Gradient Institute applied state-of-the-art causal machine learning techniques to education data to look deeper...
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