Will AI Break Australia’s Privacy Law?
Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth) was built for a simpler age. It has grown since then, but has it matured? It protects certain categories of “sensitive information”: race, religion, political…
What should the role and integrity of banks be like?
Confidence, prudence, ethical practices, cooperative spirit are all fundamental “... it remains a self-evident fact that we must take human honesty for granted, that we must assume that the man…
The right to communicate
Jean d’Arcy envisaged a greater right than current rights about freedom of expression and opinion Jean d’Arcy, was a pioneer of French television. D’Arcy became director of programming for the…
Some key differences between ideological campaigns and political campaigns
What are their roles and do they coalesce? In practice, ideological campaigns and political campaigns often overlap, but they are driven by different goals, time horizons, and methods of winning.…
The Right to the Future Tense
Human Freedom in the Age of Predictive Technologies The idea of a right to the future tense emerged in the late 2010s alongside growing concern about data-driven prediction and behavioural…
Building AI Trust: Transparency, Safety and Accountability Matter
Artificial intelligence (AI) now sits quietly in the background of daily life. It answers questions, recommends content, assists diagnosis, and increasingly shapes decisions that matter. Many of us are comfortable…
Australia’s Legal Reckoning on Children’s Protection in Cyberspace
In the digital age, information is a strategic asset, not just content. It can empower and educate, but it can also mislead and harm those who lack the capacity to…
Benefits from space programs?
Space exploration has regularly shown that investments for infrastructures beyond Earth, including for travel beyond Earth, yield enduring benefits on Earth. These benefits cover scientific, technological, social, economic, and even…
Machine cognition is not human cognition, even when it imitates it
Machine cognition introduces a distinctive set of social problems precisely because it departs from the foundations of human rationality and moral judgment. Human rationality involves the capacity to reason through…