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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Control AI or risk ‘1984’ future, says human rights commissioner Lorraine Finlay

15 May 2023

Gradient Institute Chief Scientist Tiberio Caetano said there was the potential that AI could be used to manipulate people. Australia’s human rights commissioner Lorraine Finlay has warned...

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Watch for ‘bad actors’ in AI power struggle, regulators urged

2 May 2023

One of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence experts has warned that regulators need to start paying attention to anyone throwing vast amounts of computer power at machine learning, to...

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Australian experts want AI regulator, investigation of failures

28 April 2023

Gradient Institute co-founder and chief scientist at the research institute Tiberio Caetano says the public release of generative AI tools and access to uncapped compute power to push it further...

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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:

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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...

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Banking Finance + Oath (BFO) AI-driven marketing in financial services

9 June 2022

The BFO Young Ambassadors collaborated with Gradient Institute to investigate the ethical concerns surrounding the use of AI in financial services. While some areas of the industry, such as credit...

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Yaya Lu joins 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Case Studies

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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...

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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...

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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...

Events

May
3

Sydney

Risk Management Association (RMA) Australia

Schellie-Jayne Price from Stirling & Rose and Simon O'Callaghan from Gradient Institute are looking forward to presenting at this closed event for the Risk Management Association (RMA) Australia on May 3 about the "novel risks posed by AI and the emergence of generative models" in Sydney. The...

Mar
16

Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, Sydney

AI Leadership Summit

The National AI Centre will be hosting their inaugural AI Leadership Summit in Sydney. This invite-only event will bring together 100 leaders from across industry, academia, government and community. 57 members of the three National AI Centre Think Tanks (Responsible AI, Diversity and Inclusion...

Nov
30

Royal Randwick, Sydney

Digital.NSW 2022 Showcase

The NSW Government Digital.NSW 2022 Showcase will be taking place in Sydney on 30 November, 2022. The event aims to present some of the government's current activities and future plans relating to their use of digitial technology. CEO of Gradient Institute Bill Simpson-Young will be sitting on...

Oct
6

Perth, WA

The 2022 French Dialogues

The University of Western Australia Law School and the UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab invite you to attend the 2022 French Dialogues. The French Dialogues is a facilitated discussion between members of a panel consisting of experts from a variety of disciplines who discuss a contemporary and...

Sep
17

Sydney, NSW

Festival of Dangerous Ideas

We're excited for this important event run by our long-time collaborators The Ethics Centre!

Aug
1

Oxford, UK

AIES Conference

The fifth AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial intelligence, Ethics, and Society will be taking place at Oxford on the 1-3 August, 2022.

Jun
21

Seoul, South Korea

ACM FAccT Conference 2022

The fifth annual ACM FAccT conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. ACM FAccT 2022 builds on the success of the 2021 conference, which was held online. The 2022 conference will be held both...

May
2

Sydney, Australia

Future.NSW

This thought-leadership event will support the building of a smarter, customer centric and fully digital NSW. We will work together with NSW residents, the private sector, industry and business leaders to harness the power of technology to deliver smarter, faster and easier services.

Apr
29

Canberra, Australia

50 Years of Computing at ANU

Fifty years ago, 260 students enrolled in an introductory course called ‘Computer Science B01’. Nowadays, ANU has over 1200 full time students. In between, they grew from a sub-department of the Department of Statistics to their own department (1976), and now, a School – the School of Computing...

Apr
4

Sydney, Australia

Women in AI Awards 2022 Australia – New Zealand

The fifth AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial intelligence, Ethics, and Society will be taking place at Oxford on the 1-3 August, 2022.

Partners

Gradient Institute is enabled by the vision of:

IAG University of Sydney CSIRO's Data61

We work to pursue our vision in partnership and collaboration with:

HMI Ambiata Ethics Centre