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Technology

How can Australia grasp the opportunities and manage the risks of disruptive technologies such as AI?

    I never said “thank you” to my calculator: reflections from the outgoing NSW Chief Data Scientist

    19 December 2023

    As AI becomes invisibly embedded in everyday life, we must remain laser focused on controlling and regulating how it uses data and the data it generates.

    Ian Oppermann

  • Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy

    Roy Green

  • Conscious decoupling: creating a more sustainable model of material use in a growing economy

    Kar Mei Tang

  • The policy dividend of integrated knowledge: perspectives from the COVID-19 experience

    Peter Doherty

More articles

  • E-waste reached a record 53.6 million metric tonnes in Australia in 2019.

    Australia’s smart waste opportunity to electrify the world

    Almost all the materials used for electrification are finite. Waste recycling should play a major role in the transition to a decarbonized economy.

    Veena Sahajwalla

  • The 2019-2020 bushfire season made a different set of systems visible – fire, water, rain, wind, smoke, firefighters and fire safety apps, and of course climate and climate change. (Photo by Stuart Shaw/iStock)

    How should policymakers think about the future?

    Policymakers help to design the future. Their challenge is to embrace a world of twenty-first century dynamic, complex systems.

    Genevieve Bell