ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

This project "Visualising Generative AI with Collage", uses collage to highlight and critique the language surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It contributes to critical AI literacy by fostering understandings of GenAI that acknowledge its social, political, cultural and environmental dimensions, including vested industry interests. The project aligns with emerging arts‑based approaches for questioning and challenging contemporary AI technologies. 👉 Read more https://lnkd.in/gMgk5_4v Authored by ADM+S Chief Investigator Deborah Lupton, this project aligns with the ADM, Ecosystems and Multispecies Relationships project at ADM+S.

Call for Papers! The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media. It will take place on 6-7 May in Brisbane at QUT Kelvin Grove, and online. We are now calling for short abstracts, with a deadline of 9 March. We will then be asking for short draft papers to be circulated among presenters, and will assign discussants to panels. it's going to be a bit scholarly, a bit sparkly, very collegial and, hopefully...generative. We're keen to explore how the problem of authenticity shows up and might be managed in synthetic media contexts including audio and screen media, internet culture, music, and AI-powered voice agents or chatbots. We welcome interdisciplinary, methodological, empirical, and conceptual work addressing the social and technical dimensions of these problems. We are particularly keen to see work that engages directly with voice automation, either as a standalone topic or in the context of audiovisual and/or synthetic media more broadly. A non-exhaustive list of potential topics and approaches includes: 🍄 Historical perspectives on ideas about authenticity and/or human voice and presence in relation to media technologies and practices ✨️Computational and/or sociotechnical approaches to authenticity and its governance and regulation in synthetic media, including proposals for and evaluations of synthetic media detection, AI disclosure or transparency methods 🌈 Perspectives that centre cultural and linguistic diversity, disability, gender and sexual diversity, Indigenous, and global or majority world approaches to authenticity 💟 Authenticity issues in online creator culture, journalism, human rights documentation and witness media, including practitioner, industry, and audience practices and experiences All the info and a link to the submission form is at this link: https://lnkd.in/gBZZuhGX

The 2026 ADM+S Summer School brought together our higher degree and early career research community from across RMIT, QUT, UNSW, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Monash University, UQ and Swinburne University. Over three days, speakers shared knowledge and insights whilst participants built new skills, deepened collaborations and strengthened connections across the Centre. Thank you to our Day 3 speakers: Daniel Angus, Devi Mallal, Ned Watt, Silvia Montaña-Niño, Michael Richardson, Daniel Binns, James Meese, Joanne Kuai, Kyle Herbertson, Deborah Lupton, Jenn Wilson, James Picone. A huge thank you to Sally Storey for organising the 2026 ADM+S Summer School, as well as our students and researchers who delivered sessions in the program, researchers that provided one on one mentoring to our PhD students, and the ADM+S operations team Julie Stuart, Matt Warren, Miranda Ramsay, Saskia Velcek, Nick Walsh, Kathy Nickels and Yasmin Tambiah for the behind the scenes support.

This new report assesses how well Commonwealth government departments and agencies are complying with the requirement to publish an artificial intelligence (AI) transparency statement, a key aspect of the Policy for the responsible use of artificial intelligence AI in government. This requirement became mandatory for many Commonwealth government departments and agencies from February 2025. The report concludes that AI transparency statements are not as easily found as they ought to be. Very few statements were accessible through ‘a link to the statement’ as recommended by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA). The report identified 30 government entities potentially within the scope of the policy for which a statement could not be found. It also found that AI transparency statements vary significantly in the detail provided. Some are useful and informative, but others failed to comply with the requirements of the Standard for AI transparency statements. 👉 Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gPN4bTGw Authors: Kimberlee Weatherall, Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Alexandra Sinclair Research assistance: Shuxuan (Annie) Luo #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #AITransparency

ADM+S Summer School Day 2 featured practical workshops focused on inclusive research methodologies; generative AI and the reshaping of scholarly communication, authorship and academic publishing; building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI governance. Thank you to Day 2 speakers: Kieran Hegarty, Jenny Kennedy, Justine Humphry,  Charishma Ratnam, Peta Mitchell, Jean Burgess, Cesar Ariza Rojas, Chenglong Ma, Xinye Wanyan, Nuha Abu Onq, Ani Møller, Daniel Angus, Futoon Abu shaqra, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Fan Y., Christine Parker, James Meese, and Danula Hettiachchi, Kimberlee Weatherall, Alexandra Sinclair, Yunus Yigit. #Research #RAG #GenAI #AIgovernance

The ADM+S Summer School kicked off yesterday, bringing together researchers from across the ADM+S community for three days of learning, collaboration and connection. Participants engaged in interactive workshops and mentoring sessions, sharing knowledge and strengthening connections across our Centre. Thank you to our Day 1 speakers: Margaret Xiong, Ayesha Fernandes, Kelsie N. Nabben, Ellie Rennie, Brooke Ann Coco, Luke Miller, Udiana Puspa Dewi, Jiaxi Hou, Patcharapar Rojanakit, Maria Gemma Brown, Meg Thomas, Thao Phan, Nicholas Carah, Christine Parker, Michael Esteban, Amanda Lawrence, Henry Fraser, William He, Luci Pangrazio, Louise Paatsch, Damiano Spina.

So glad to see my Cambridge Element Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation with Corinne Tan (PhD) published. We started out (and met) as copyright nerds so it was so great to be able to work with her around a new regulatory area. The book: 👉 Introduces general debates around misinformation and disinformation. If you don’t know much about these areas, this quick read is a great place to start. 👉 Explains misinformation and disinformation legislation with comparisons across key jurisdictions. If you are coming from another area of law or not a legal scholar, this might be helpful. 👉 Provides an up-to-date analysis about how AI is increasingly involved in the wider governance of misinformation and disinformation. 👉 Contextualizes the reform moment, which saw everyone rush to introduce new laws, by considering the application of existing legal frameworks to address untrue and/or incorrect information. Most importantly, it is ✨free✨ over the next two weeks, so if you’re in the above list, access it, save the PDF and read it whenever you want. https://lnkd.in/gcBiEHJB

Australian government AI transparency rules aren't working as they should. Today we've released a report (https://lnkd.in/gmXwFc86) assessing how well Commonwealth government departments and agencies are meeting policies that require them to publish artificial intelligence (AI) transparency statement, based on a snapshot done 6 months after statements became mandatory. It's a key aspect of the government's policy for the responsible use of artificial intelligence AI in government. To meet standards, Commonwealth government information about its use of AI should be published, readily findable, and informative. We've expanded on the data in our piece in the Conversation last year (https://lnkd.in/gJ_5W8KF). The report shows: - Published: we struggled to work out whether everyone who is meant to publish a statement in fact has done so; - Findable: we had to work to find them all; they're mostly not linked (as the DTA has recommended) from the same place as the privacy statement; - Informative: some are. But others really aren't: there were 5 where we couldn't work out whether AI is currently being used or not; 11 that don't mention appointing accountable officials (another mandatory requirement); 14 that don't mention human oversight at all. Since we did our snapshot, a lot has happened: the APS AI Plan; the National AI Plan, and a new responsible AI use policy in the Commonwealth government. But the rules on transparency haven't really changed. With departments and agencies now needing to develop strategic approaches, and assess AI use cases, there's a great opportunity to improve the information published to the government. I'm hoping the work we've done here helps illustrate that government departments have some work to do in explaining what they're doing. ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society; Elizabeth Tydd

📲🖼️📆 How has #visualstyle on social media changed over the past 10 years alongside other platform evolutions and altered social media practices? 📄 My latest article in The Conversation Australia + NZ identifies some trends based on a little project I took on over the holidays. ✍️ Thanks to Signe Dean for the terrific-as-always editing. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gV_QjwYw ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Digital Ethnography Research Centre | 3C (Communication and Change Co-Lab)

We’re looking for a First Nations researcher to support the research fieldwork (10 sites across Australia), project deliverables, data governance, reporting and presentation of research findings for the ‘Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians’ project, funded by the Australian Government. For more information and to apply please see here https://lnkd.in/gjX-VnSA or reach out to daniel.featherstone@rmit.edu.au or loretta.vaughan@rmit.edu.au for further information