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The AI, Trust and Governance Centre (CAITG) at the University of Sydney is our flagship hub for research and innovation examining the complexities of emergent AI technologies from a socio-technical perspective.
We are dedicated to advancing responsible AI development and implementation through multi-disciplinary research, fostering public trust, and informing policy decisions in complex regulatory environments.
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Examining how AI transforms creative industries including screen media and entertainment, journalism, games and the arts, while navigating the challenges of authorship, authenticity and sustainability.
Mediated Trust: Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Futures
The Mediated Trust research program brings together leading researchers and experts to investigate the relationship between social trust, media, AI and digital communication.
Significant crises of trust have been identified with social, political and economic institutions throughout the world. This research program identifies communication media, including digital and social media as well as news and journalism, as having a central role in both the causes of distrust, and countering crises of trust.
In 2023 Professor Terry Flew was awarded a five-year ARC Laureate Fellowship to establish the Mediated Trust program.
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Investigating the relationship between AI and digital platforms, focussing on information integrity, content creation and distribution, and how algorithms and data are reshaping languages, cultures and knowledge.
The International Digital Policy Observatory
°Õ³ó±ðÌý is a publicly accessible, real-time database with enhanced analytical tools that tracks developments in digital, internet, and emerging technology regulation across multiple countries.
The purpose of this infrastructure is to shape innovative policy search and analysis techniques concerning multifaceted regulation, policies, and governance across our digital society and economy.
Through the development of such an enabling infrastructure, policy makers, industry stakeholders, and civil society advocacy groups will be able to draw upon a ‘common pool’ resource to better understand and respond to international trends in the tech policy arena. The IDPO seeks to place Australia at the forefront of policy and regulatory debates globally.
Investigating the intersection of AI and legal systems, considering issues of accountability, transparency, and regulation within democratic frameworks.
Analysing how AI is changing educational institutions and practices, including transformation of provision, administration, and teaching and learning, and the challenges to equity in AI-enhanced educational environments.
Artificial Intelligence in Education
The rapid introduction of artificial intelligence into education is occurring with inadequate policy support. Additionally, there is a lack of stakeholder input into decisions about the use of AI in education. Utilising social science and data science approaches, this project aims to democratise policy about AI in education by building tools to monitor policies, and developing collaborative policy making methods. The expected outcomes include publicly available policy resources to anticipate, and respond to, the role of AI in education, and participatory frameworks for policy making. The benefits include informed stakeholder engagement, and concrete policy recommendations that are globally relevant and adaptable to the Australian context.
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The impact of AI on teachers’ work: Policy and practice implications
°Õ³ó±ðÌý‘Generative AI in Education’ project is a project funded by the NSW Teachers Federation, and led by a team from the Education Futures Studio at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and Queensland University of Technology. It aims to co-create practical guidance for schools about generative AI in education with Teacher Federation members across NSW utilising in-person and online collaboration methods. Activities include an online survey to capture teachers’ insights and needs on AI usage in education, followed by a workshop to jointly develop the necessary guidance. The result will be a set of comprehensive guidelines distributed among NSW TF members to support the ethical and efficient use of AI in educational settings.
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Equity, education and AI
Funded by the Policy Challenge Grants of the James Martin Institute for Public Policy, the ‘Governing AI Education and Equity Together’ project aims to assist policymakers and stakeholders in anticipating and responding to the educational opportunities and inequalities that arise from the use of AI-enabled technologies. A diverse array of stakeholders will be actively involved in the process of generating and evaluating policy ideas about the growing EdTech ecosystem in New South Wales. This ecosystem spans student, teacher, system, and infrastructure-related technologies that shape differential access, usage skills, and outcomes.
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Addressing how AI is transforming organisational structures and the future of work, exploring the balance between technological advancements and human labour.
AI and governance: High Performing Systems for Tomorrow
Developing collaborative partnerships with civil society to further uses of AI for social good, address algorithmic biases and advance data justice, advance accountability, and promoting democratic deliberation on tech policy decision-making.
