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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

In the season nine premiere of Monash’s podcast, learn how AI, deepfakes and humanoid robots are transforming human interaction and our perception of reality.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

How consumers can influence who controls AI

AI development is currently held by a small number of companies. Public vigilance can help ensure they stick to ethical use of the technology.

Technology

The case for coding automated vehicles with human values

The automated vehicle “trolley problem” shows where self-driving technology can fail. But there could be upsides to coding human values into these machines.

Medicine and health

Engaging with Chinese communities, enriching education in Australia

Educational practices are being redefined so students and teachers can build global interconnectivity and cultural diversity.

Education

Listening to Indigenous peoples’ knowledge

It’s time to ditch colonial thinking and listen to the wisdom of Indigenous peoples to advance health and wellbeing, and to forge a sustainable planetary future.

Medicine and health

Beyond the hype: The practical and ethical implications of generative AI in education

While large language models such as ChatGPT offer vast potential in reshaping educational methods, the challenges are many.

Technology

Episode 86: Are Humans About to Evolve?

Trace the increasingly blurred line between man and machine in the world of transhumanism on our “What Happens Next?” podcast.

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AI, we need to talk: The divide between humanities and objective truth

Could our fascination with objectivity be the Pied Piper that led us to develop a machine some of us now fear and avoid?

Medicine and health

ChatGPT: From the horse’s mouth

We asked the artificial intelligence tool what the legal and ethical issues of using it were. Here’s what it told us.

Technology and engineering

Episode 65: Will AI Change the Future of Soldiering?

This week on Monash University's podcast, “What Happens Next?”, learn how emerging technologies are changing the way we think about soldiers, and the way soldiers think about their jobs.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 64: Will Tomorrow's Wars Be Fought by Robots?

A new episode of Monash University's podcast, “What Happens Next?”, examines what the future will look like if we don’t consider the moral and ethical quandaries presented by new technologies on the battlefield.

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What does the rise of AI in agriculture mean for the future of farming?

With automation becoming increasingly widespread in industrial farming, new research examines the role and status of the “farmers” as they spend more and more time managing IT systems.

Politics and society

Episode 59: Are There ‘Good’ Trolls?

On a new episode of Monash University's 'What Happens Next?' podcast, Dr Susan Carland and expert guests discuss retaliation, the difference between call-outs and cancel culture, and how to be an ethical digital activist.

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Face masks: How to cut down on waste while staying safe

Just because we’re in a period of social change doesn’t mean we have to lose momentum on sustainability. There are six things we can do right now to offset our daily waste from disposable masks.

Medicine and health

Making health technology human through wearable devices and smart jewellery

Human-centred design approaches can help solve some of our most pressing health challenges.

Design and architecture

Episode 45: Bias in AI – Teaching machines to think responsibly

If humans are programming artificial intelligence, are we stuck with the human biases that inadvertently work their way into AI systems?

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Travel bans, COVID-19, and the disregard for human dignity

Instead of criminalising their citizens, India and Australia must invest more in strengthening ethical public health responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

Politics and society

Episode 26: Rising Stars

In this episode of What Happens Next? podcast on space, we'll learn about what space can teach us about life on Earth, and how to make a better future for all of us.

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