Powerful, accurate and fair: Preparing Australia for next generation artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world—with profound social and economic implications.
Half of all businesses globally are using AI in at least one function.
But many AI projects fail to achieve their goals, with significant economic and human costs. AI can deliver enormous benefits, but only if we build the capability of business and government to set and implement AI strategy that gives us what we want and need.
Under the leadership of Edward Santow, Industry Professor – Responsible Technology, UTS is working to fill this critical knowledge gap.
UTS will offer masterclasses and training at three levels:
Bespoke leadership development
To develop effective AI strategy for senior government and private sector leaders.
Targeted training in AI-exposed sectors
To build understanding of key employees in sectors where there is high investment in AI, supporting good decisions regarding AI development, procurement and use.
General workplace training
To build the understanding of employees in all sectors regarding how AI is relevant to their work.
I am excited to work with UTS’s world-class experts on a defining challenge of our time: to ensure that the AI we increasingly rely on gives us the future we want and need, not one we fear.
Prof Edward Santow, Industry Professor – Responsible Technology
Developing artificial intelligence Australians want and need
AI is already used extensively in manufacturing, supply chain optimisation, human resources, marketing, customer engagement, fraud detection, infrastructure maintenance, finance, government decision making, law and many other areas. AI use cases are limited only by our imagination.
Australians want business and government to use AI that is powerful, accurate and includes protections for our basic rights. Investing in strategic skills and expertise on AI can enable this to be achieved.
As Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner, Prof Santow led a major project that provided practical recommendations for enhancing human rights protections in the development and use of AI.
AI is a child. We influence them, we give them some principles and then how we design the system follows. While we can set certain expectations, expectations means that the system is not going to be 100% correct because it's a probability based system.
Distinguished Professor Fang Chen
Why study with UTS?
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 Australia’s largest artificial intelligence research facility |
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UTS is bringing world-leading experts to assist the private sector and government to achieve strategic transformations in your organisation’s workforce capabilities, respond to emerging opportunities and rise to challenges.
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At this point in history, universities need to be leading the conversation around technology and the public good, and in particular what responsible and ethical leadership of technology looks like.
The Hon. Prof. Verity Firth AM, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Social Justice & Inclusion)
