Published Oct 18 2017

An automated world - Episode 1: A Different Lens

Edward
Buckingham
Professor and Director of Engagement, Monash Business School
Libby callaway
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Robert sparrow
Professor of Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute
Ben boyd
Professor of Drug Delivery Sciences
Richard hall
Deputy Dean, Leadership and Executive Education, Monash Business School
Peter o'neill
Management expert
Patrick butler
Professor & Director MBA
Jon mccormack
Professor, and Director, Monash SensiLab, Faculty of Information Technology
Maria garcia de la banda
Professor, Faculty of Information Technology

Automation will help humans make better decisions, but at what cost? How many jobs will automation displace globally and what will the jobs of the future be? What will humans do with the extra time provided by a more automated world? How society reacts to and manages this fundamental societal change will have significant impacts for the human race.

As robotics and artificial intelligence become more prevalent in our communities, we are seeing major social and economic disruptions. Some are positive, some are not, and some pose deep ethical questions.  In this documentary Monash researchers and industry experts offer their insights on these challenges.

 

 

Watch other episodes in this video documentary series 'A Different Lens':

 

About the Authors

  • Edward buckingham

    Professor and Director of Engagement, Monash Business School

    Edward's areas of expertise are strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and change management. He has extensive experience in executive education, and has taught in French, Indonesian and Mandarin as well as English. His specialist areas in executive education include strategy and leadership. His industry interests include agribusiness, manufacturing, education and natural resources.

  • Libby callaway

    Senior Lecturer, Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University

    Libby Callaway is an occupational therapist with extensive experience working with people with neurotrauma, across inpatient and community rehabilitation settings in Victoria and internationally in the United States of America.

  • Robert sparrow

    Professor of Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute

    Robert's research interests are bioethics, political philosophy and applied ethics; he is an expert in philosophical arguments with real-world implications.

  • Ben boyd

    Professor of Drug Delivery Sciences, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Ben is a Professor in the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (bionano.org.au). Ben’s work is primarily funded by Australian Research Council Discovery, Centres of Excellence and Linkage grants.

  • Richard hall

    Deputy Dean, Leadership and Executive Education, Monash Business School

    Richard's areas of expertise lie within the broad field of work and organisation studies, including leadership, new technology and organisational change, the future of work, organisational discourse and industrial relations, and his research has been widely published internationally.

  • Peter o'neill

    Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Monash University

    Peter was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash Business School. His research areas include business strategy, particularly issues surrounding growth, innovation and internationalisation in the manufacturing sector.

  • Patrick butler

    Professor of Marketing & Director MBA Programs at Monash Business School

    Patrick is the Professor of Marketing and Director of MBA Programs at Monash Business School. His research on marketing strategy, politics and management in the public sector has been published in international books and journals including Marketing Theory, European Journal of Marketing and Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.

  • Jon mccormack

    Professor, and Director, Monash SensiLab, Faculty of Information Technology

    Jon is a professor in computer science in the Faculty of Information Technology, an ARC Future Fellow, and founder and director of SensiLab. His research interests include generative art, design and music, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, visualisation, virtual reality, interaction design, physical computing, machine learning, developmental models, and physical computing. Since the late 1980s, Jon has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. Inspired by the complexity and wonder of a diminishing natural world, his work is concerned with electronic “after natures”.

  • Maria garcia de la banda

    Professor, Faculty of Information Technology

    Maria has an outstanding international reputation as a researcher in the areas of logic programming, constraint programming, program analysis and transformation, and bioinformatics. She moved from Spain, where she earned an award-winning PhD in 1994, to Australia, to continue her research into a new constraint logic programming language designed to help people find optimal solutions to problems involving many possible choices. In 2009 Maria become the Head of the Caulfield School of Information Technology, and from 2013-2016 she served as Deputy Dean of Monash’s Faculty of Information Technology. She is a passionate advocate for gender equity in science, technology and engineering professions, and acts as a mentor for young women interested in pursuing STEM careers.

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