Key Questions for AI in Public Institutions - think piece online

[Tanja Dreher]

Dear colleagues 

sharing details of a recent report 'Key Questions for AI in Public Institutions' by Tanja Dreher and Georgia van Toorn, available online: https://apo.org.au/node/333125 

 

* Key Questions for AI in Public Institutions * 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)/GenAI is being rapidly adopted across public institutions and government departments, including in public universities and social services in Australia. The speed and scale of AI rollout has prompted concerns about environmental impacts and intellectual property, corporate influence, amplifying discrimination and more.  

In this think piece we sketch the impacts and implications of corporate AI for institutions with a public interest orientation. The report adopts a Data Justice lens to focus attention on the societal impacts and social justice implications of data-driven systems, including AI. This approach expands the frame beyond individual privacy, copyright, efficiency and convenience, to centre social justice and public interest concerns. Through a series of prompts, we aim to provoke conversations, advocacy and policy engagement by providing resources for further thinking and action.   

Conversation prompts – we need to talk about: 

1. Business models 
2. Climate impacts 
3. Bias and discrimination 
4. Surveillance, control and coercion 
5. Consent and refusal 
6. Expertise and voice 
7. Participation and co-option 
8. Alternatives 

The report is published by the UNSW Media Futures Hub and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society 

Dr Tanja Dreher (she/her)

Deputy Head of School (Research) | Associate Professor in Media | Co-Director Media Futures Hub

School of Arts and Media | Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

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