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6 March 2024
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Thea Snow
27 February 2024
While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.
José-Miguel Bello y Villarino
7 February 2024
Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.
Juliet Bennett
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What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?
Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska
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8 November 2023
What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?
Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska
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Regulating artificial intelligence against gender bias: can Australia emerge as a world leader?
Australia has joined the race to regulate AI – but we aren’t paying enough attention to the gender-related challenges generated by these systems. Here’s how we can start to fix that.
How research can enhance policymaking: improving the interface between academia and government
Breaking down the barriers to collaboration between researchers and policy practitioners takes relationships of trust, innovative knowledge-brokering institutions and better mutual understanding.
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Generative AI is here to stay. But with a nuanced understanding of the technology, sophisticated regulation and a long-term view, we can minimise its harms and capitalise on its transformative potential.
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As Australia embraces a broader definition of national progress, we should use metrics that prioritise the wellbeing of the economy and society together.
The wellbeing economy: our opportunity to redesign a more humane economy
Australia and the world need a new economic and social paradigm that prioritises people and the planet.
Australia should enhance the ESG capabilities of small businesses – here’s how
Australia can be a leader in sustainable business and contribute to a greener and more socially responsible future by developing strategic supports, incentives, stricter regulations and collaboration platforms for small and medium enterprises.
A black sky and some green shoots: how to shape AI for the common good
A passive approach to emerging artificial intelligence technologies could generate significant social problems – but “mission economy” and “just transition” approaches to AI can unlock a better, more inclusive future.
The biggest risks of AI don’t come from it getting smarter than us – they come from us
Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.
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Community battery storage and the promise of a just transition
Policymakers can empower communities to contribute to greater energy efficiency and resilience by applying a “just transition” lens to new technologies such as community battery storage.
