Complexity is not new: how our own technological history can teach us about AI
Elizabeth T. Williams, Caitlin M. Bentley, Katherine A. Daniell, Noel Derwort, Kobi Leins, and Ehsan Nabavi
What do the words “artificial intelligence” evoke for you? Hopes? Fears? A shiny, personalised future with a place for everyone? A dystopian landscape, peppered with fallen drones and unemployed masses? ...
Explainable artificial intelligence: What were you thinking?
Tim Miller
Decisions that affect our lives in both trivial and important ways are increasingly being made by algorithms. These algorithms, especially those derived using artificial intelligence (AI), are often inscrutable — ...
Gene therapy – personalised medicine in action
Marguerite V. Evans-Galea
We all begin life as a single cell that divides and develops until we are a fully grown human being. Inside this cell, our DNA carries the complete set of ...
Genetic screening
Martin Delatycki
The explosion of knowledge in relation to the genetic basis of multiple conditions means that screening for the risk of preventable disease as well as for the risk of having ...
Genomics in general practice
Grant Blashki & Jon Emery
In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary technological revolution underway in which the very building blocks of life, our genetic codes, are increasingly well understood and even manipulated by ...
Groundbreaking earth sciences for a smart — and lucky — country
Andrew Roberts, Mike Sandiford & Katy Evans
It is difficult to think of an area of our lives that is not touched by the earth sciences — whether it relates to the energy used to fuel our ...
Kobi Leins
AI for better or for worse, or AI at all?
When I was a little girl, I was taught a song about a ball of white string, in which the white string could fix everything ...
Ian Lowe
Science, technology and wellbeing
Scientific understanding of the world has enabled us to improve material wellbeing on a scale that previous generations would find difficult to believe. For all ...
Emma Martinho-Truswell and Sabrina Martin
Artificial intelligence and government
Artificial intelligence offers a daunting challenge for government: a potent mix of high expectations, big budgets, a competitive international “AI arms race”, and elevated public ...
Sylvia A. Metcalfe
Personal genomic testing
Traditionally, genetic tests have been firmly placed within a clinical context — clinicians order tests to gather information to help or confirm diagnosis of a ...
Tim Miller
Explainable artificial intelligence: What were you thinking?
Decisions that affect our lives in both trivial and important ways are increasingly being made by algorithms. These algorithms, especially those derived using artificial intelligence ...
Ehsan Nabavi, Katherine A. Daniell, Elizabeth T. Williams and Caitlin M. Bentley
AI for sustainability: A changing landscape
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting society in varied ways as researchers and practitioners are using it to gain new insights into different problems and to ...