This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This podcast includes the following presentations: Warwick Powell, University of Queensland, Shoufeng Cao, University of Queensland: Automated Decision-Making in Cross-Border Trade with China: Exploring the opportunity of federated Multisig deal transaction smart contracts to streamline payments. Lin Tian and Xiuzhen Zhang, R...
Feb 24, 2023•46 min
This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This podcast includes the following presentations: H C Steinhardt and Christian Göbel, University of Vienna: Mobilising Social Anomie to strengthen the state: Justification Strategies for 'Social Credit' on Sina Weibo. Anne-Christine Trémon, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris: Scientific Fairness: Exper...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This session included the following presentations: Adam Knight, Leiden Institute: Automating Revolution: Operational Research and the Origins of Automated Decision-Making in 1950's China. Xiang Gao, Zhejiang University: Automated-Decision Making, Bureaucratisation and centralisation: The rise of China's digital administrative...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr
This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This podcast includes the following presentations: Marianne von Blomberg and Bjorn Ahl, University of Cologne: Debating the Legality of "Credit based Regulation" in China - A review of Chinese legal scholarship. Cheris Shun-ting Chen, University of Hong Kong: Making it a Habit: Instituting Social Credit Systems in Rural China...
Feb 24, 2023•48 min
This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This podcast includes the following presentations: Yu Hong, Zhejiang University, Yiran Wei, Hong Kong Baptist University: The Making of a City Brain: How traditional media become the sociotechnical gateway for technopolitical disagreement. Han Tao, University of Sussex: In Credit we Trust? Banks, 'Packaging Agencies' and the ...
Feb 24, 2023•42 min
This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023. This podcast includes the following presentations: Haemin Jee, U.S. Military Academy: Credit for compliance: How Institutional Layering Ensures Compliance in China. Fan Yang, University of Cologne: Strengthening Efficiency, Consistency and Supervision: Provincial Pilots of Judicial AI and Big Data in China. Yiran Li, Hong Kon...
Feb 24, 2023•51 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. This session shines the spotlight on the groundbreaking interdisciplinary academic and industry initiatives, research and collaboration being undertaken in Sweden - across three key organisations - the automotive company Volvo Cars, Halmstad University’s interdisciplinary research team, and Drive Sweden - one of the Swedish Government’s Strategic Innovation. Prof Sarah Pink, Monas...
Nov 18, 2022•29 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. What do future automated mobilities look like from the perspectives of different stakeholders across industry, public sector, academic and government funded initiatives? Our panellists explore how these organisations and sectors have successfully collaborated, and we ask how we might achieve future fair, trusted and safe interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder automated mobilities...
Nov 18, 2022•47 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. How do we research, design and create interventions towards fair, trusted and safe future automated mobilities? What new research methods and techniques are available, and how might they be harnessed for interdisciplinary and engaged research and impact? Our world renowned methodologists will discuss these issues from social and computer science perspectives. Speakers: Dr Debora L...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. Our interdisciplinary panellists from academia and industry will discuss some key issues around the usage of mobility data in designing automated decision-making systems in the transport domain. How has this data been used for good, and good for whom? What are some of the principles we need to stick to? Speakers: Professor Flora Salim, University of New South Wales (Chair) Mandi M...
Nov 18, 2022•56 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. Inclusive design is a necessary element of future automated mobilities systems and technologies. Our panellists will explore the benefits of inclusive design of automated mobilities starting in the lives of people and physical sites where disability is lived and experienced. We will ask what the consequences will be if we do not do so? Speakers: Professor Sarah Pink, Monash Univer...
Nov 18, 2022•51 min
This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. Disaster response, precision agriculture, border control, military logistics, and urban delivery all imagine different aerial futures, but each also depends on the transformation of air into skyways. This panel brings together experts on drones, remote sensing, and autonomous technologies to raise vital provocations about the future of the skies above us. Speakers Associate Profes...
Nov 18, 2022•48 min
In this workshop held on 7 November 2022, Professor Deborah Lupton (author/co-author of 20 books and editor/co-editor of a further ten volumes) provides guidelines and advice on how to write a book proposal to achieve a publishing contract. Deborah discusses how to develop an idea for a book, what content should be in the proposal, and how best to scope publishers to approach. Throughout the presentation participants engaged in an online Q&A, to which Deborah actively responds to, as she pre...
Nov 08, 2022•46 min
Advertising is becoming harder than ever before to hold accountable, which raises important concerns about the legacy of abuses that have characterised the industry. Predatory advertising, discrimination, and the circulation of false and harmful messaging are harder to detect and regulate online because there is no public archive of online ads. The Australian Ad Observatory provides one model for enlisting citizens to help provide transparency for online advertising. In this episode, the ADM+S A...
Oct 26, 2022•44 min
Humans have long defined, framed, and designed bots with the primary aim of passing as human and our collection imagination of what bots can do is often restrained by this focus. The question arising from this strong tendency, is whether humans are capable of imagining bots in another capacity. What is the purpose of designing bots that imitate humans, and could bots offer far more? Professor Daniel Angus chats with Dominique Carlon about the role of bots in society and how we may recognise that...
Oct 17, 2022•21 min
Automated transport and mobility services have the potential to transform how we live and move. They offer new opportunities to address entrenched inequalities of access to mobility, relating to disability, age, economic status and location. However, to achieve these possibilities, the development of new technical capacities and data systems needs to be harnessed for the design of future transport and mobility services that fulfil the needs of people and social institutions. In this episode, Pro...
Oct 06, 2022•25 min
This panel investigates the dynamic interplay between: discourses framing digital technologies as solutions to the climate crisis and the real material impacts of these technologies on ecologies of living. Panellists will examine the potential efficacy of digital tech, interrogate its underlying ethics and critically analyse its social, political and ecological dynamics through addressing the following questions: Will digital technologies solve the climate crisis? Can they do it? How are digital...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Streaming media and entertainment platforms like Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and Netflix rely on recommender systems to curate and present selected items from their vast libraries of content. These recommender systems draw on data associated with individual consumption activities and preferences, bespoke cultural categories, and licensing or advertising deals, and are baked into the platforms’ operations and business models. For example, Spotify automatically curates personalised playlists like Dis...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Sextech – a space that encompasses dating apps, sexual entertainment platforms and services, networked sex toys, and AI- powered sex robots - has emerged as a site in which sexual pleasure, wellbeing and health are increasingly understood as data. Many sextech products collect significant amounts of intimate data about people’s sexual preferences, sexual behaviour and sexual health, which is both volunteered through user profiles and self-tracking platforms, and detected via sensors in smart sex...
Sep 12, 2022•54 min
Why does trust matter in our relations with automated systems and technologies? What are the risks of not attending to it? And what do we stand to gain by putting it at the centre of our research and practice? Questions of trust seem to be at the core of concerns about the design, application and our lives with automated decision-making. Engineers and technology designers seek to create automated technologies that are inherently trustworthy. Governments need people to trust automation to enable ...
Sep 12, 2022•41 min
As society becomes increasingly datafied and platformised, regulators the world over are keen to address unequal bargaining power, and to promote fairer, healthier digital spaces. Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (NMBC) was one of the first attempts to query the fundamental business model of news media, and it inspired other governments to tackle gatekeepers and structural imbalances. Within the Asia-Pacific region, South Korea and China have launched antitr...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min
2022 will be a key year to see where regulatory approaches to Artificial Intelligence will be heading. At this stage, from Brazil to the US and from China to the EU, “risk” is the anchor of the many of these regulatory initiatives whether in hard norms, smart rules or standardisation. This panel will bring four regional perspectives to the discussion to see if these approaches are truly divergent or just different manifestations of a bigger idea – protecting societies from AI-related risk. It wi...
Sep 12, 2022•56 min
News media businesses and working journalists are increasingly engaging with automated decision-making systems across a variety of different contexts. Recommender systems systematically distribute news to online audiences and novel machine learning systems can produce comprehensible auto-generated articles. News consumption is also changing, with companies sending news updates through chatbots and voice assistants as a means of engaging with audiences. There are concerns that these developments ...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Digital transformation is an area of strategic importance for humanitarian and community development sectors, and innovative uses of data and technology are helping address humanitarian needs and empower communities. However, these tools and systems can create new forms of intrusion, insecurity and inequality, often at the expense of the most vulnerable people and communities. We need to work collaboratively across sectors and disciplines to understand and address the risks – and make the most o...
Sep 12, 2022•53 min
It is now well recognised across multiple disciplines and sectors that Automated Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence need to be built in a way that is fair, non-biased, and equitable. Yet, a major challenge in achieving fair, non-biased and equitable ADM/AI is a diversity of views and confusion about what these terms mean, how they are conceptualised and contextualised and how they might be assessed and measured. This panel session advances the need for inter-disciplinary conversations i...
Sep 12, 2022•54 min
This panel will feature presentations on the following topics: - What is a DAO? And why should we care about automated coordination mechanisms? - If it looks like you’re doing the work, then you’ve done the work, right? - Unpacking contribution and reward systems in DAOs - DAOs in practice: Governance of and by algorithms - How are DAOs viewed in the eyes of the law? Are they just another type of company? - A case study on TracerDAO - Are we better off in the long run? The economics of DAOs. Spe...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Digital technologies are increasingly entering into diverse spaces of care: from home and health and disability care settings to social services to the management and control of global crises such as COVID-19 and climate change by government and industry bodies. Contributors to this panel explore understandings and sociomaterialities of care as it is conceptualised, carried out, experienced and problematised through emerging automated technologies. Speakers: Professor Deborah Lupton, University ...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 15 min
ADM is entrusted with consequential decisions in all walks of life. The have the capacity to cause considerable harm as well as good. For example, embodied robots and self-driving vehicles may cause physical harm or property damage; while faulty or biased disembodied systems, such as credit scoring and job recruitment tools, are capable of seriously and unjustly curtailing life opportunities, especially for vulnerable groups. Civil liability laws (and insurance regimes built upon them) are one i...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Globally, the e-commerce sector has boomed over the last couple years, benefitting greatly from social reshaping by the pandemic. The ascendency of Amazon – and its aggressive entrance into Australia – has been at the centre of much public attention. This panel, based on an ADM+S Seed Fund project, expands the critical analysis of e- commerce. Rather than universalize the Amazon model, our original empirical and theoretical research shows how warehouses contain a much greater diversity of techno...
Sep 12, 2022•35 min
Artificial intelligence (AI) has probably already made decisions about your life. Platforms use AI and other forms of automation to recommend music for you to listen to on Spotify, to personalise your news feed, and recommend things to buy on Facebook. AI and automated decision-making are also being used across society to solve problems as diverse as improving social services, creating more efficient transport, and providing greater access to healthcare. AI and automation are changing the way we...
Sep 12, 2022•42 min
