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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?

The problem with AI and greenwashing

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword that can help enhance transparency, but also perpetuate false claims about sustainability efforts.

Technology and engineering

T cell breakthrough a step towards personalised medicine

Scientists have utilised AI to predict T cell receptors, advancing personalised medicine, and boosting immunotherapy and vaccine development.

Medicine and health

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?

The ‘machine defendant’: Who’s to blame when AI makes mistakes?

As they improve, we’ll likely trust AI models with more and more responsibility. But if their autonomous decisions end up causing harm, our current legal frameworks may not be up to scratch.

Business and economy

Reimagining the future education ecosystem

Education policymakers, businesses and the IT industry are all having their say about what AI in education might look like in the future, but one voice is missing from all these prognostications – the students who it will impact.

Education

FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do?

Widely-available AI tools are supercharging cyber crime, which means we need to stay on top of our online security like never before.

Technology

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

An eerie ‘digital afterlife’ is no longer science fiction. So how do we navigate the risks?

Ways to interact with virtual versions of our deceased loved ones are now a possibility – but there’s a raft of ethical and emotional challenges involved.

Technology

Indigenous science can help solve some of the great problems of our time

Australia has just listed Indigenous knowledge among its science priorities – after First Nations knowledge has long gone uncredited in Western “discoveries”, such as life-changing drugs.

Science

The paradigm shift needed to address growing global fragility

Complex and interconnected threats to global peace and security demands innovative and interconnected thinking by experts working across academic disciplines and industry sectors.

Politics and society

Ransomware attacks: How to prevent them

Ransomware has become a rising threat within government, business and academic circles, but there are ways to protect against it.

Technology

Is an AI winter coming?: Navigating the cycles of AI hype and just regulation

By basing any AI regulation on the principles of justice, we can take a balanced approach that promotes innovation while safeguarding societal interests.

Business

Water worries: Indonesia and the US have plenty in common

Despite being on other sides of the planet, Jakarta and Iowa are staring down similar issues regarding water hygiene and supply.

Sustainable development

Finding a fix for Indonesia’s data protection problems

Addressing data breaches and government surveillance misuse requires a balanced approach that respects national security and individual privacy.

Technology

Deepfakes: When you can no longer trust your eyes

Deepfakes are threatening privacy and security, and while detection methods using deep learning aim to combat the problem, there’s a long way to go.

Technology

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

Legal loopholes don’t help victims of sexualised deepfakes abuse

Sexual deepfake abuse silences women, causing lasting harm, and laws to protect them are inconsistent. A global approach is vital if society truly wants to address the problem.

Politics and society

Tickle vs Giggle: A transgender test case

For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.

Politics and society