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     07.45              Light breakfast on arrival

     08.00              Registration

     08.30              WELCOME

     08.30 – 08.40      Welcome to the Go8 AI Collaboration and Commercialisation Summit
                        Summit Host: Professor Margaret Gardner
                        President and Vice-Chancellor Monash University

     08.40 – 08.45      Welcome to Country
                        „„ Elder from the Wurundjeri Land & Compensation Cultural Heritage
                           Council Aboriginal Corporation

     08.45 – 08.55      Launch of the Go8 AI Capability Statement
                        „„ Professor Dawn Freshwater
                           Vice Chancellor University of Western Australia and Go8 Chair

     08.55 – 09.05      The day’s three key questions
                        „„ Summit Facilitator: Professor Marc Parlange
                           Provost and Senior Vice-President Monash University

     09.05 – 09.25      Opening Keynote and Context
                        „„ Dr Alan Finkel
                           Australia’s Chief Scientist

     09.25 – 09.40      Keynote Address: Artificial Intelligence and the implications
                        for Australia (by recorded video)
                        „„ Professor Toby Walsh
                           Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence UNSW Sydney

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                      SESSION 1       IMPROVING AUSTRALIA’S AI COMMITMENT
                                      There are extensive opportunities for Australia from the existing
                                      strengths in AI and related fields that are within the Go8 and other
                                      organisations. As global advances accelerate, Australia will need to
                                      keep pace, and preferably be ahead, in niche areas if it is to have a
                                      competitive edge in trade, R&D, and across most sectors; including
                                      Defence and Space. Considerations range from required investment,
                                      much greater industry adoption, and the building of required
                                      workforce skills.

                      09.40 – 10.40   Improving Australia’s AI commitment
                                      Panel Chair: Dr Dean Moss
                                      Chief Executive Officer UniQuest University of Queensland
                                      and Chair of the Go8 Innovation and Commercialisation Group
                                      „„ Dr Tony Lindsay
                                         Director STeLaRLab Lockheed Martin
                                      „„ Mr Jonathan Chang
                                         Silverpond Chief Executive Officer and Founder
                                      „„ Professor Sally Cripps
                                         Director of Centre for Translational Data Science Professor of
                                         Statistics School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney
                                      „„ Mr Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry
                                         Max Kelsen Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
                                      „„ Dr Mike Molinari
                                         Managing Director IP Group Australia
                                      For open discussion and with panel Q&A

                      10.40 – 11.00   Morning Tea

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 11.00 – 12.00      Case Studies
                    Panel Chair: Vicki Thomson
                    Chief Executive Group of Eight
                    An industry partner and university partner describe how they
                    worked together to deliver a product for the industry partner.
                    They will highlight the challenges, what the industry partner needed,
                    what the university partner delivered, and lessons learned
                    Case Study 1 – Monash University
                    and Australian Federal Police (AFP)
                    Case study on AFP collaboration with the university on the dark web
                    and using AI to track down cyber criminals.
                    „„ Dr Campbell Wilson
                       Associate Dean (International) Co-Director AiLECS (AI for
                       Law Enforcement and Community Safety) research laboratory
                       Monash University
                    „„ Dr Janis Dalins
                       AFP Co-Director AiLECS Lab and Data Science Lead
                       for Digital Forensics
                    „„ Ms Annelize Venter
                       AFP Manager of Information Data Management and Analytics
                    With Q&A
                    Case Study 2 – AI Startup Hivery
                    Case study on HIVERY, an AI startup, established by three academics
                    and two associates from Coca-Cola. It will explore how the company
                    started with an experimental mindset and convinced established
                    retailers and CPG companies to think differently about embracing
                    and starting out with AI and operations research. The case study will
                    cover how HIVERY secured customer data and used a unique product
                    development methodology to co-develop software applications that
                    assist them look at retail space management in ways never possible;
                    scaling to the USA, Japan and Latin America (LATAM) in the progress.
                    The session may also discuss skills transfer, attracting people to AI
                    careers and access to data.
                    „„ Dr Menkes van den Briel
                       Hivery Data Scientist and Co-founder
                    „„ Mr Franki Chamaki
                       Hivery Chief Operations Officer and Co-founder
                    With Q&A

 12.00 – 12.15      Keynote Address: Artificial Intelligence
                    – the European and French context
                    „„ Professor Jean Chambaz
                       President Sorbonne University France and
                       Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU)

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                      SESSION 2       IMPROVING AI DEPLOYMENT INTO THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
                                      How people respond to AI, either by embracing, being concerned, or
                                      rejecting it, depends on the degree to which AI is discussed in Australia.
                                      The Go8 has a role, with key AI industry innovators, in assisting and
                                      informing ways to navigate this societal and industry change.

                      12.15 – 13.15   Panel Chair: Dr Alastair Hick
                                      Senior Director Monash Innovation
                                      „„ Professor Sarah Pink
                                         Professor and Director Emerging Technologies Research Lab
                                         Monash University
                                      „„ Ms Narelle Luchetti
                                         Acting Head Digital Economy and Technology Division
                                         Department of Industry Innovation and Science
                                      „„ Professor Anton van den Hengel
                                         Director Australian Institute for Machine Learning
                                         Chief Investigator Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
                                         and Professor of Computer Science University of Adelaide
                                      „„ Dr Stefan Hajkowicz
                                         Senior Principal Scientist Strategy and Foresight
                                         and Director Data61 Insight Team CSIRO
                                      „„ Dr Jürg von Känel
                                         Associate Director IBM Research Australia
                                      „„ Professor Nicole Gillespie
                                         KPMG Chair in Organisational Trust Professor of Management
                                         School of Business University of Queensland
                                      For open discussion and with panel Q&A

                      13.15 – 14.00   Lunch

                                      UNSW soccer robots on show
                                      Professor Claude Sammut
                                      Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Head of
                                      the Artificial Intelligence Research Group UNSW Sydney with:
                                      „„ Tripta Kaur
                                         Fourth year undergraduate student School of Computer Science
                                         and Engineering and School of Mechanical and Manufacturing
                                         Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW Sydney
                                      „„ Ethan Jones
                                         PhD Student School of Computer Science and Engineering
                                         Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Sydney

                      14.00 – 14.30   Keynote Address: Australia AI ethics framework
                                      „„ Dr Stefan Hajkowicz
                                         CSIRO Senior Principal Scientist Strategy and Foresight
                                         and Director Data61 Insight Team

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 SESSION 3                   AUSTRALIA’S AI POLICY, GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION
                             The expanding role of AI demands Australia be ready to navigate,
                             respond to and incorporate the myriad possibilities from this. There
                             are legal, ethical and regulatory challenges. Trust is essential. A
                             fundamental consideration underpinning policy development,
                             governance and regulation around AI is how trust is established and
                             maintained. Regulatory measures, transparency, and AI clarity, plus
                             visibility regarding ‘safe’ implementation are key to achieving trust.
                             Trust extends to data collection, access and usage that enables AI.
                             Associated with trust and safety, are the areas of ethics, productivity,
                             employment, health and inequality1.

 14.30 – 15.45               Panel Chair: Vicki Thomson
                             Chief Executive Go8
                             „„ Mr Edward Santow
                                Human Rights Commissioner Australian Human Rights Commission
                             „„ Dr Jed Horner
                                Strategic Advocacy Manager Standards Australia
                             „„ Professor Jeannie Paterson
                                Professor of Law University of Melbourne
                             „„ Associate Professor Paul Henman
                                Associate Professor Digital Sociology and Social Policy,
                                School of Social Science University of Queensland
                             „„ Ms Veronica Scott
                                Director KPMG Law KPMG

 15.45 – 16.00               Bringing it together: Opportunities for action with future
                             collaboration and discussions
                             Summit Facilitator: Professor Marc Parlange
                             Provost and Senior Vice-President Monash University

 16.00 – 17.00               Wrap up drinks

1 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p. 18

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LAUNCH OF THE GO8
                          WELCOME                             AI CAPABILITY STATEMENT
                          08.30–08.40                                08.45–08.55

     WELCOME
BIOGRAPHIES

               Professor Margaret                     Professor Dawn Freshwater
               Gardner AO                             Go8 Chair and Vice-Chancellor
               President and Vice-Chancellor          The University of Western Australia
               Monash University

               Margaret Gardner has been              Dawn Freshwater became Vice-
               President and Vice-Chancellor          Chancellor of The University
               of Monash University since             of Western Australia (UWA) in
               September 2014. Prior to joining       January 2017 and is leading the
               Monash, she was Vice-Chancellor        implementation of UWA’s 2030
               and President of RMIT from April       Vision and Strategic Plan. Her
               2005 until August 2014. Professor      contribution to the fields of Public
               Gardner was Chair of Universities      Health (specifically Mental Health
               Australia from 2017 to 2019,           and Forensic Mental Health)
               and is a Go8 Director. She is          and her research in Leadership
               also a Director of Infrastructure      practices won her the highest
               Victoria, the Australia and New        honour in her field. Professor
               Zealand School of Government           Freshwater is a Director of the
               (ANZSOG) and a member of               Perth US Asia Centre, Vice-Chair
               the Prime Minister and Cabinet         of the Worldwide Universities
               Inclusion and Diversity Committee.     Network and member of the
               Professor Gardner was made an          NHMRC Women in Health Science
               Officer of the Order of Australia in   Committee.
               recognition of service to tertiary
               education.

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SUMMIT FACILITATOR                                                OPENING KEYNOTE
   08.55–09.05                                                       09.05–09.25

                                       OPENING
                                       KEYNOTE
                                       AND KEYNOTE
                                       ADDRESS

 Professor Marc Parlange                             Dr Alan Finkel AO
 Provost and Senior Vice-President                   Australia’s Chief Scientist
 Monash University

 Marc is the Provost and Senior                      Alan became Australia’s Chief
 Vice-President of Monash                            Scientist in January 2016. He is
 University and is Professor in the                  Australia’s eighth Chief Scientist.
 Department of Civil Engineering.                    Prior to this he served as President
 Prior to his position at Monash, he                 of the Australian Academy of
                                                     Technology and Engineering (ATSE),
 served as Dean of the Faculty of
                                                     and for eight years as Chancellor of
 Applied Science at the University
                                                     Monash University.
 of British Columbia (Canada)
 and Dean in Switzerland at the                      As Chief Scientist, Alan is leading
 École Polytechnique Fédérale                        the development of the national
 de Lausanne (Switzerland) in the                    hydrogen strategy at the request
                                                     of the Council of Australian
 School of Architecture, Civil and
                                                     Governments. He also led the 2016
 Environmental Engineering. He was
                                                     National Research Infrastructure
 professor and department chair                      Roadmap, the 2017 Review into the
 at Johns Hopkins University and                     National Electricity Market (“Finkel
 Assistant and Associate Professor                   Review”) and the 2018 STEM
 at the University of California at                  Industry Partnership Forum report.
 Davis. He has an MS and PhD from                    He serves as the Deputy Chair of
 Cornell University, and a BS from                   Innovation and Science Australia.
 Griffith University.                                He has an extensive science
                                                     background as an entrepreneur,
                                                     engineer, neuroscientist and
                                                     educator. He was awarded his
                                                     PhD in electrical engineering from
                                                     Monash University and worked as
                                                     a postdoctoral research fellow in
                                                     neuroscience at ANU. He was 2016
                                                     Victorian of the Year, and received
                                                     the 2015 IET Mountbatten Medal
                                                     (UK) and the 2019 IEEE Joseph F.
                                                     Keithley Award in recognition of
                                                     his work in advancing the field of
                                                     scientific instrumentation.

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS                                                                   PANEL CHAIR
   09.25–09.40                                                                     09.40–10.40

                                       SESSION 1:
                                       IMPROVING
                                       AUSTRALIA’S AI
                                       COMMITMENT

Professor Toby Walsh                                              Dr Dean Moss
Scientia Professor of                                             Chief Executive Officer Uniquest
Artificial Intelligence                                           University of Queensland
UNSW Sydney

Toby is Scientia Professor of                                     Dean is CEO of UniQuest, Australia’s
Artificial Intelligence at UNSW,                                  leading university commercialisation
a researcher at Data61, and                                       entity, managing the University of
guest professor at the Technical                                  Queensland’s intellectual property. He
University of Berlin. He was named                                has more than 30 years’ experience
                                                                  in science, academia, business,
by “The Australian” as a “rock star”
                                                                  management and commercialisation
of Australia’s digital revolution,
                                                                  in Australia, the US and the UK.
and he is a Fellow of the Australian                              He has been managing director
Academy of Science. He appears                                    or senior business development
regularly on TV and radio talking                                 executive of several health and
about AI, and has authored                                        biotech companies worldwide,
two books on AI for a general                                     including Agen Biomedical, Launch
audience, the most recent entitled                                Diagnostics, AMRAD ICT, AMRAD
“2062: The World that AI Made”.                                   Biotech, and United Drug. Dean
                                                                  established the highly successful York
                                                                  Medical Technologies as a start-up in
                                                                  the UK in 2004. He is a board member
                                                                  of several Australian biotechnology
                                                                  companies and was a member of the
                                                                  investment committee of pre-seed
                                                                  venture funds Uniseed, the Medical
                                                                  Research Commercialisation Fund
                                                                  and the New Zealand Government’s
                                                                  KiwiNet. Throughout his career, Dean
                                                                  has managed the raising of more than
                                                                  $100M in venture capital investment.
                                                                  He sits on the NHMRC Health
                                                                  Innovation Advisory Committee
                                                                  and is Chair of the Go8 Innovation
                                                                  and Commercialisation Group. In
                                                                  2018, Dean was awarded the title
                                                                  of Adjunct Professor in the office of
                                                                  the UQ’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor
                                                                  (Research).

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PANEL                                           PANEL                                          PANEL
   09.40–10.40                                     09.40–10.40                                    09.40–10.40

Dr Tony Lindsay (Panellist)             Mr Jonathan Chang                      Professor Sally Cripps
Director of Science, Technology,        Chief Executive Officer                Director of the Centre for
Engineering Leadership and              and Founder                            Translational Data Science
Research Laboratory (STELaRLab)         Silverpond                             Professor of Statistics, School
Lockheed Martin                                                                of Mathematics and Statistics
                                                                               University of Sydney

STELaRLab is Lockheed Martin’s          Jonathan is the founder and CEO        Sally is Director of the Centre
first international multidisciplinary   of Silverpond, a machine learning      for Translational Data Science,
Research and Development                and artificial intelligence company    University of Sydney and a
(R&D) Laboratory. Prior to his role     based in Melbourne. His vision         Professor of Statistics, School
at Lockheed, Tony was with the          inspires the Silverpond team to        of Mathematics and Statistics.
Defence Science and Technology          create ground-breaking solutions       She was awarded an Australian
Group for 28 years. His last position   for clients transforming their         Research Council Future Fellow
was Chief of the National Security      industries; from asset management      2014-2018 and is currently
and Intelligence, Surveillance and      and utilities to retail, healthcare,   Director of the ARC Industrial
Reconnaissance Division. In that        and research.                          Transformation Training Centre
role he was responsible for R&D                                                Data Analytics for Resources and
                                        Jonathan is passionate about
programs supporting Australian                                                 Environments (DARE). She is also
                                        harnessing AI to positively
Defence Organisation (ADO)                                                     Chair of the International Society
                                        transform society. He advocates for
ISR Projects including major                                                   for Bayesian Analysis’s section
                                        responsible AI at speaking events
surveillance acquisitions and                                                  Bayesian Education and Research
                                        and conferences, and with industry
intelligence programs.                                                         in Practice. Her research focus is
                                        groups and government.
                                                                               the development of new and novel
                                                                               probabilistic models which are
                                                                               motivated by the need to solve an
                                                                               applied problem with potential for
                                                                               impact. She has particular expertise
                                                                               in the use of mixture models for
                                                                               complex phenomenon, modelling
                                                                               longitudinal data, nonparametric
                                                                               regression, the spectral analysis of
                                                                               time series and in the construction
                                                                               of transitions kernels in MCMC
                                                                               schemes which efficiently explore
                                                                               posterior distributions of interest.

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PANEL                                          PANEL
     09.40–10.40                                    09.40–10.40

                                                                                   CASE STUDIES

Mr Nicholas                               Dr Mike Molinari
Therkelsen-Terry                          Managing Director
Chief Executive Officer                   IP Group Australia
and Co-founder
Max Kelsen

Nicholas co-founded Max Kelsen in         Mike is the Managing Director
2015 to provide big data and machine      of IP Group Australia, a global
learning services and AI to large         leader in commercialisation which
and small clients. Max Kelsen now         has partnered with the Go8 and
employs over 30 machine learning          Auckland university and committed
and AI experts and has delivered          to invest a minimum of A$200M
AI services and solutions to some         over 10 years in technologies
of Australia’s biggest brands. In
                                          arising from these universities.
addition to working with corporate
                                          Mike has deep experience in
and government clients, the Max
                                          commercialisation of technology in
Kelsen team has recently attracted
millions in funding to further its        both Australia and the UK, having
research into applying state-of-the-      both managed university spinouts
art AI to treatment selection and         and been an investor in them.
outcome prediction for lung cancer        Mike holds a DPhil and MSc in
and melanoma patients. In 2017, Nick      Biomedical Engineering from the
co-founded otso.ai, a platform for        University of Oxford.
enterprises to analyse and process
unstructured data from any source.
It is now used by thousands across
hundreds of teams. Alongside these
two roles he heads up Queensland
AI, Australia’s biggest AI meetup
with almost 3,000 members. Nick
has a broad range of expertise
spanning business, economics, sales,
management and law. He has a deep
theoretical and applied understanding
of cutting-edge machine learning
techniques, and has been widely
recognised as a domain expert in
this field. Nick has a Bachelor of Laws
and Bachelor of Economics from the
University of Queensland.

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PANEL & CASE STUDY CHAIR                             CASE STUDY                                    CASE STUDY
       11.00–12.00                                   11.00–12.00                                   11.00–12.00

    Ms Vicki Thomson                       Dr Campbell Wilson                      Dr Janis Dalins
    Chief Executive                        Co-director of the AiLECS (AI for       AFP Co-Director AiLECS Lab
    The Group of Eight                     Law Enforcement and Community           and Data Science Lead for
                                           Safety) Research Laboratory             Digital Forensics
                                           Monash University

    Vicki is Chief Executive of the        Campbell is co-director of the          Janis Dalins, PhD, leads the AFP’s
    Group of Eight (Go8) – Australia’s     AiLECS (AI for Law Enforcement          data science capability and is
    eight leading research-intensive       and Community Safety) research          co-director of the AiLECS lab.
    universities. She took up her role     laboratory, a joint initiative of       He has over seventeen years’ law
    in January 2015. Prior to this, she    Monash University and the               enforcement experience across the
    was Executive Director of the          Australian Federal Police. His          AFP, including counter terrorism,
    Australian Technology Network of       expertise encompasses machine           uniform policing and digital
    Universities (ATN). Ms Thomson’s       learning, information retrieval         forensics. In 2018 he received
    diverse background covers print        and digital forensics. His current      the Commissioner’s Medal for
    and electronic journalism, politics,   research focuses on the application     Excellence in recognition of his
    issues management and the              of AI in addressing serious             efforts in developing and applying
    higher education sector. She has       societal issues such as online child    machine learning methodologies
    an extensive media, political and      exploitation. He also explores          to law enforcement.
    policy background and was Chief        the ethical implications of AI
    of Staff to a South Australian         technologies in law enforcement
    Premier. She is a Board member of      applications and their explainability
    the European Australian Business       in policing and judicial contexts.
    Council and is a member of the
    Australian Government’s New
    Colombo Plan Reference Group.

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CASE STUDY                                  CASE STUDY
                                   11.00–12.00                                 11.00–12.00

     CASE STUDY
     continued
BIOGRAPHIES

                  Ms Annelize Venter                           Dr Menkes van den Briel
                  Chief Data and Analytics Officer             Data Scientist and Co-founder
                  Australian Federal Police                    Hivery

                  Annelize is a versatile IT senior            Menkes is a co-founder at HIVERY,
                  manager with highly developed                a startup that develops simple web
                  leadership skills and 20 plus years’         applications around complex
                  experience across a diverse range            business challenges for retail
                  of industries, including insurance,          businesses. HIVERY uses AI
                  financial services, engineering,             techniques to generate measurable
                  mining, manufacturing and                    and repeatable impact. Menkes
                  pharmaceuticals. Most recently               has a PhD in Industrial Engineering
                  she held leadership roles at                 from Arizona State University. His
                  Anglo American and Suncorp                   PhD research was in
                  Group, leading distributed agile             the area of AI planning and his
                  teams and managing large scale               prior work in Operations Research
                  projects and implementations of              was cited on the front page of
                  operational analytics. Currently she         The Wall Street Journal and in
                  leads teams across three divisions           numerous other media.
                  in the Technology and Innovation
                  Portfolio of the AFP. This includes
                  the Data Analytics and Data
                  Science teams.

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CASE STUDY                                                        KEYNOTE ADDRESS
  11.00–12.00                                                          12.00–12.15

                                      KEYNOTE
                                      ADDRESS:
                                      ARTIFICIAL
                                      INTELLIGENCE –
                                      THE EUROPEAN
                                      AND FRENCH
                                      CONTEXT

Mr Franki Chamaki                                      Professor Jean Chambaz
Co-founder and                                         President
Chief Operations Officer                               Sorbonne University
Hivery

Franki Is a founding member of                         Jean is a professor of Cellular
Coca-Cola’s first accelerator; a                       Biology and former Director of the
network of entrepreneurs with the                      Cordeliers Research Center. His
aim of building the next generation                    institutional leadership positions
of billion-dollar businesses with                      include President of Pierre & Marie
the support of Coca-Cola. Franki                       Curie University and following the
later set up Red Garage Ventures,                      merger with Paris-Sorbonne, he
a venture studio which builds                          was elected President of Sorbonne
startups by connecting them to                         University in 2017. His activities in
Coca-Cola’s global assets. He is                       University Associations include:
currently the Co-founder and Chief                     Chair of the League of European
Operations Officer of HIVERY. A                        Research Universities (LERU)
Data61/CSIRO backed AI company                         in 2018; board member of the
helping retailers and FMCGs                            European University Association
leverage AI in ways never before.                      (EUA) from 2015 to 2018; and
Franki specialises in the areas of                     President of the Coordination
Marketing, Design Thinking and                         of French Research-Intensive
Lean Startup; and goes by the                          Universities (CURIF) from 2014 to
belief that anyone who tries to                        2018.
improve a situation is a designer.

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KEYNOTE & PANEL CHAIR                                       PANEL
                          12.15–13.15                                          12.15–13.15

     SESSION 2:
     IMPROVING AI
     DEPLOYMENT
     INTO THE
     ECONOMY
     AND SOCIETY
BIOGRAPHIES

                    Dr Alastair Hick                         Professor Sarah Pink
                    Senior Director                          Professor and Director of
                    Monash Innovation                        the Emerging Technologies
                    Monash University                        Research Lab
                                                             Monash University

                    Alastair is the Senior Director Monash   Sarah is an internationally leading
                    Innovation at Monash University.         Design Anthropologist, and is
                    Since 2006 he has been responsible       Professor and Director of the
                    for developing a successful licensing    Emerging Technologies Research
                    and spin out program at Monash,          Lab at Monash University. Her
                    with multiple different interventions    research brings new knowledge
                    including proof of concept funds         about human futures to the design
                    and strategic partnerships with          of emerging technologies, in
                    multiple investors. He was the Chair     international, interdisciplinary
                    of Knowledge Commercialisation           and industry engaged projects,
                    Australasia from 2015–2018. He           and through the design and
                    has developed and run multiple           tailoring of innovative new research
                    training programs for technology         approaches and techniques.
                    transfer professionals. Following 10     Sarah has numerous scholarly
                    years as a research scientist he has     publications and frequently gives
                    been involved in commercialisation       keynote and public lectures to
                    of technologies from universities        academic, industry and other
                    and research institutes since 1999,      stakeholder audiences around the
                    including four years at Cambridge        world.
                    Enterprise at the University of
                    Cambridge. Alastair has a BSc (Hons)
                    in Chemistry with Biochemistry, a PhD
                    in Chemical Ecology, an MBA from
                    the Judge Business School. He is a
                    Director of Monash spinout Amaero
                    Engineering and was a founding
                    Director of the $30M Trans-Tasman
                    Commercialisation Fund. He has
                    recently been appointed Chair of the
                    Research Committee for the $100M
                    Monash Technology Transformation
                    Institute in Shenzhen, China.

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PANEL                                           PANEL                                           PANEL
   12.15–13.15                                     12.15–13.15                                     12.15–13.15

Ms Narelle Luchetti                     Professor Anton                         Dr Stefan Hajkowicz
Acting Head, Digital Economy            van den Hengel                          Senior Principal Scientist
and Technology Division                 Founding Director, Australian           Strategy and Foresight
Department of Industry,                 Institute for Machine Learning          Director, Data61 Insight Team
Innovation and Science                  Chief Investigator, Australian Centre
                                                                                CSIRO
                                        for Robotic Vision and Professor of
                                        Computer ScienceAustralian Institute
Narelle is acting head of the Digital   for Machine Learning (AIML)             Stefan is a senior principal scientist
                                        University of Adelaide
Economy and Technology Division.                                                in strategic foresight at CSIRO.
She leads teams responsible for                                                 He leads the Data61 Insight
                                        Anton is the founding Director of
the digital economy, regulation                                                 Team, a group of researchers and
                                        The Australian Institute for Machine
of emerging technologies, digital                                               consultants helping organisations
                                        Learning, Australia’s largest
adoption and international digital                                              navigate digital disruption. Stefan’s
                                        machine learning research group.
policy. The division supports                                                   research and consulting work helps
                                        He is also a Chief Investigator of      companies, governments and
the growth and productivity of          the Australian Centre of Excellence
globally competitive businesses                                                 communities explore plausible
                                        in Robotic Vision, and a Professor      futures and make wise strategic
by developing and promoting             of Computer Science at the              choices. He is a world leading
cohesive national digital economy       University of Adelaide. He has          scholar in decision theory and has
policies and programs. Over             been a CI on over $60m in research      published seminal works on the use
the last 10 years Narelle has           funding from sources including          multi-objective decision support. His
worked in digital policy and IT         Google, Facebook, Canon, BHP            research has contrasted structured
implementation across various           Billiton and the ARC. He has            versus intuitive approaches to
agencies, including the Digital         authored over 300 publications,         decision making. His decision
Transformation Agency, Treasury         and has recently had a medical          models have guided investments
and in the private sector.              technology achieve first-in-class       worth hundreds of millions of dollars
                                        FDA approval. Current research          and have been used by Australia’s
                                        interests include deep learning,        State and Federal Governments to
                                        vison and language problems,            make critical policy choices. Stefan
                                        interactive image-based modelling,      is widely published in international
                                        large-scale video surveillance,         research literature and his most
                                        and medical machine learning.           recent book is “Global Megatrends”.
                                                                                He has a doctorate in geography
                                        He and his team have developed
                                                                                from the University of Queensland
                                        world leading methods in a range
                                                                                and postgraduate qualifications in
                                        of areas within Computer Vision
                                                                                economics from the University of
                                        and Machine learning, including
                                                                                New England. He is a current and
                                        methods. which have been placed
                                                                                recent member of the OECD and
                                        first on a variety of international     World Economic Forum global
                                        leaderboards.                           strategic foresight communities.

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     12.15–13.15                                   12.15–13.15

                                                                                   UNSW SOCCER
                                                                                   ROBOTS ON
                                                                                   SHOW

Dr Jürg von Känel                       Professor Nicole Gillespie
Associate Director                      KPMG Chair in Organisational Trust
IBM Research Australia                  Professor of Management
                                        University of Queensland
                                        Business School

Jürg is the associate director of the   Nicole is the KPMG Chair in
“IBM Research Australia” lab in         Organisational Trust and Professor
Melbourne. He studied math and          of Management at the University
computer science at ETH Zürich          of Queensland Business School,
and holds a Ph.D. in Computer           and an International Research
Science (1991). He joined IBM in        Fellow at the Centre for Corporate
1985 in Zürich Switzerland. In 1991     Reputation, Oxford University.
he moved to the IBM TJ Watson           Her research focuses on the
Research center in the US. In June      development and repair of trust,
2011 , he came to Melbourne             particularly in challenging contexts
to lead the establishment and           such as after during technological
operation of the IBM Research lab       disruption and organisational
in Australia.                           change and after trust failures.
                                        Nicole’s research and consulting
                                        spans the Health, Banking and
                                        Finance, Resources, Higher
                                        Education, R&D, Defence and
                                        Non-Profit industries.

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ROBOT PRESENTATION                                                 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
    13.15–14.00                                                       14.00–14.30

                                          KEYNOTE
                                          ADDRESS:
                                          AUSTRALIA
                                          AI ETHICS
                                          FRAMEWORK

  Professor Claude Sammut                             Dr Stefan Hajkowicz
  Professor of Computer                               Senior Principal Scientist
  Science and Engineering                             Strategy and Foresight
  Head of the Artificial Intelligence                 Director, Data61 Insight Team
  Research Group UNSW                                 CSIRO

  Claude is a Professor of Computer                   Stefan is a senior principal scientist
  Science and Engineering at                          in strategic foresight at CSIRO.
  the UNSW, and head of the AI                        He leads the Data61 Insight
  Research Group. He is on the                        Team, a group of researchers and
  board of trustees of the RoboCup                    consultants helping organisations
  Federation and was general chair                    navigate digital disruption. Stefan’s
  of RoboCup 2019, in Sydney. His                     research and consulting work helps
  main research area is machine                       companies, governments and
  learning for robotics. He is also co-               communities explore plausible
  editor of Springer’s Encyclopedia                   futures and make wise strategic
                                                      choices. He is a world leading
  of Machine Learning and Data
                                                      scholar in decision theory and has
  Mining.
                                                      published seminal works on the use
                                                      multi-objective decision support. His
                                                      research has contrasted structured
                                                      versus intuitive approaches to
                                                      decision making. His decision
                                                      models have guided investments
                                                      worth hundreds of millions of dollars
                                                      and have been used by Australia’s
                                                      State and Federal Governments to
                                                      make critical policy choices. Stefan
                                                      is widely published in international
                                                      research literature and his most
                                                      recent book is “Global Megatrends”.
                                                      He has a doctorate in geography
                                                      from the University of Queensland
                                                      and postgraduate qualifications in
                                                      economics from the University of
                                                      New England. He is a current and
                                                      recent member of the OECD and
                                                      World Economic Forum global
                                                      strategic foresight communities.

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                                 14.30–15.45                                14.30–15.45

     SESSION 3:
     AUSTRALIA’S
     AI POLICY,
     GOVERNANCE
     AND REGULATION
BIOGRAPHIES

                      Mr Ed Santow                               Dr Jed Horner
                      Human Rights Commissioner                  Strategic Advocacy Manager
                      Australian Human Rights                    Standards Australia
                      Commission

                      Ed has been Human Rights                   Jed is the Strategic Advocacy
                      Commissioner at the Australian             Manager for Standards Australia.
                      Human Rights Commission                    He works to enhance Australia’s
                      since August 2016. Ed leads the            international participation in digital
                      Commission’s work on detention             standards and drives engagement
                      and implementing the Optional              with domestic industry. He has
                      Protocol to the Convention                 been engaged in large scale
                      Against Torture (OPCAT); refugees          strategy development for the NSW
                      and migration; human rights                Government, including on digital
                      issues affecting LGBTI people;             transformation and innovation.
                      counter-terrorism and national             Prior to working in Government,
                      security; technology and human             Jed was instrumental in major
                      rights; freedom of expression;             commonwealth anti-discrimination
                      and freedom of religion. He is a           law reform and was a project
                      Senior Visiting Fellow at UNSW.            director for the Australian Human
                      In 2009 Ed received an Australian          Rights Centre at UNSW, Sydney.
                      Leadership Award, and in 2017 he           He continues to serve in a number
                      was recognised as a Young Global           of advisory capacities in relation to
                      Leader by the World Economic               social impact, including as a Board
                      Forum. From 2010-2016, Ed was              Member in the NGO sector.
                      CE of the Public Interest Advocacy
                      Centre, a leading non-profit
                      organisation that promotes human
                      rights through strategic litigation,
                      policy development and education.
                      He was previously a Senior Lecturer
                      at UNSW Law School, a research
                      director at the Gilbert + Tobin
                      Centre of Public Law and a solicitor
                      in private practice.

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   14.30–15.45                                    14.30–15.45                                    14.30–15.45

Professor Jeannie Paterson             Associate Professor                   Ms Veronica Scott
Professor of Law                       Paul Henman                           Director of KPMG Law
University of Melbourne                Digital Sociology and Social Policy   Data, Privacy and Digital
                                       School of Social Science              KPMG
                                       University of Queensland

Jeannie is a Professor of Law          Paul is Associate Professor Digital   Veronica has recently joined KPMG
at the University of Melbourne         Sociology and Social Policy at        Law’s Data, Privacy and Digital team.
specialising in contract, consumer     the University of Queensland.         She was previously special counsel in
protection and consumer credit         Holding degrees in computer           a major law firm’s insurance, media
                                                                             & corporate risk team and lead of its
law, as well as new technologies in    science and social science, Paul
                                                                             national privacy team. She advises
these fields. Jeannie’s research and   has examined the role of digital      clients on complex and sensitive legal
teaching covers three inter-related    technologies in public policy and     issues, risks and disputes relating to
themes: equitable support for          public administration for over 20     data, digital content and media &
consumers experiencing hardship,       years. His publications include       communications laws, with a focus
marginalisation or vulnerability;      Governing Electronically (2010–       on data protection (including GDPR),
the ethics of AI and automation in     2019, Palgrave) and Performing        privacy and confidentiality, health
                                                                             records, freedom of information and
influencing consumer choice, and       the State (Routledge 2018). His
                                                                             freedom of speech laws, defamation,
legislative design in regulating       research funding includes ARC         social media risks and cyber security.
consumer and credit markets and        CoE for Automated Decision            Her work includes advising the
new technologies in those markets.     Making & Society (2020–27) and        education sector on strategic and
                                       ARC Discovery Project Government      sensitive projects including clinical trial
                                       Web Portals as new Government         and research, data breach and crisis
                                       Actors (2017–2020).                   management and cross border data
                                                                             flows. Her recent work includes leading
                                                                             the execution of a large and complex
                                                                             Privacy Impact Assessment on the
                                                                             Victorian Parkville Precinct Electronic
                                                                             Medical Record, advising on HREC
                                                                             applications, advising on the response
                                                                             to major cyber security breaches, the
                                                                             monitoring of drones in airport space,
                                                                             data governance for mega-digital
                                                                             studies, international student exchange
                                                                             agreements, establishing alumni
                                                                             programs and the representing media
                                                                             publishers in relation to contempt
                                                                             charges. Veronica was on the Advisory
                                                                             Committee to the Australian Law
                                                                             Reform Council’s inquiry into ‘Serious
                                                                             invasions of privacy in the digital age’.

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SUMMIT PAPER
               CONTEXT AND RATIONALE

               Artificial intelligence (AI) is a topic of immense interest. It has
               been described as the biggest commercial opportunity today,
               with global GDP predicted to be 14 per cent higher in 2030 due
               to accelerating AI development and take-up, equating to an
               additional US$15.7 trillion1.

               It has also been estimated that digital                    Twenty-nine Australian universities achieved a
               innovation, including AI and related                       rating of world standard or more for Artificial
               technologies, presents a $315 billion                      Intelligence and Image Processing in the
               economic opportunity for Australia over                    latest Australian Government review of
               the next decade; if Australia can close the                university research performance4. Seven of
               current gap, so it can be at AI par with the               those achieved the highest rating of ‘well
               average of advanced economies, in 20282.                   above world standard’ – six of which were
                                                                          Go8 universities, with the University of
               It is therefore an obvious economic ‘game-
                                                                          Queensland and the University of Western
               changer’. It is also regarded as a tool for
                                                                          Australia achieving the next highest rating
               political and/or military supremacy, and it is
                                                                          of ‘above world standard’.
               the subject of ethical consideration3. In Go8
               universities it is of significant strategic focus.         The Go8 commitment and contribution
                                                                          to, and interest in, AI does extend beyond
               The Group of Eight (Go8) does recognise
                                                                          R&D; to economics, societal impacts, and
               that Australia as a nation has a way to go
                                                                          how universities can assist shape Australia’s
               in AI global status – and in Government
                                                                          responsible, and effective response.
               funding – when compared with competitor
               nations. But Australian universities have                  Meanwhile, the global AI focus has delivered
               focussed assiduously regardless; contributing              a global index of Governments’ AI readiness5
               for many years with determination, and                     and a 100-year AI study6. This year the
               with international success, especially in                  OECD7 and the G20 have developed and
               niche areas.                                               endorsed AI principles8 and an independent

               1 PwC 2017, Sizing the Prize: What’s the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise?
                 (https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/analytics/assets/pwc-ai-analysis-sizing-the-prize-report.pdf)
               2 AlphaBeta Advisors 2018, Digital Innovation: Australia’s $315 billion opportunity, commissioned by CSIRO Data61
               3 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence, p.22
               4 Australian Research Council 2019, State of Australian University Research 2018
               5 Created 2017 by Oxford Insights, the Government AI readiness index asks how well placed are national
                 governments to take advantage of the benefits of AI in their operations and delivery of public services
               6 Stanford University launched the One hundred year study on AI in 2014 to ‘study and anticipate how the
                 effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play’
               7 OECD 2019, OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence
               8 On 9 June 2019, the G20 adopted human-centred AI principles that draw from the OECD principles

         22                                              GO8 AI COLLABORATION AND COMMERCIALISATION SUMMIT
OBJECTIVES

high-level AI group was set up by the                            This Summit provides industry,
European Commission to make policy
and investment recommendations for                               government, investors,
trustworthy AI9.                                                 researchers and innovators
In Australia, an AI report, part of ACOLA’s                      with a forum to discuss and
Horizon Scanning series, The Effective and                       consider key AI challenges
Ethical Development of Artificial Intelligence:
An opportunity to Improve our Wellbeing, this
                                                                 and opportunities.
year provided a comprehensive Australian-
contextualised view.                                             The Go8’s pre-eminence in AI deliberations,
                                                                 research and innovation, and what that can
The Government is establishing an AI ethics
                                                                 deliver for industry and government partners,
framework, while Standards Australia is
                                                                 will be examined through three specific areas
expected to recommend to Government
                                                                 outlined below.
standards required to support AI.
                                                                 The Summit also provides the opportunity
Regardless of the nature of AI and its various
                                                                 for existing and future partners to gain a
technological forms10, preparedness depends
                                                                 consolidated appreciation of where there is
in part on the knowledge generation, and
                                                                 future joint activity, because AI is not an area
the adaptation and translation that resides in
                                                                 for delay or for wasting existing commitment.
universities and other research organisations.
                                                                 It is an area where standing still means being
A core question for Australia is whether                         left behind.
it should lead – at least in niche areas,
or whether it can afford to lag in AI. A
core question for the Go8 is what can
it better provide, via collaboration and
commercialisation, to assist build and secure
the nation’s AI advantage.
That is the focus of the Go8 AI Collaboration
and Commercialisation Summit.

9 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/high-level-expert-group-artificial-intelligence
10 The 2019 ACOLA report for example notes there is lack of consensus on a universal definition however defines
   it as a collection of interrelated technologies used to solve problems and perform tasks that, when humans
   do them, requires thinking. It expands further to note four types of AI: Narrow AI; Emerging and Disruptive AI;
   Generalised AI and Superhuman AI

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SUMMIT PAPER
               PRIORITY AREAS FOR DISCUSSION

               Summit discussion will focus on what is needed immediately, and
               in the short-term, from Go8 universities, building on their capacity
               and knowledge.

               TOPIC 1 IMPROVING AUSTRALIA’S AI COMMITMENT /
               LIFTING AUSTRALIA’S GAME IN AI

               There are extensive opportunities for Australia           Many countries, though not yet Australia, have
               from existing AI strengths and related fields             announced major investments in AI research.
               in the Go8 and other organisations. As global             Currently Australia is estimated to spend
               advances accelerate, if Australia is to have              around 0.001 per cent of its GDP on AI11.
               a competitive edge in trade R&D and most
                                                                         “probably the one big country that is not
               sectors, it must commit and keep pace, and
                                                                         investing lots of money in AI is actually
               preferably remain ahead in niche areas.
                                                                         Australia”
               Considerations range from investment                      Professor Hugh-Durrant Whyte, Chief Scientist and
               needed, to greater AI industry adoption,                  Engineer, NSW Government12
               and building necessary workforce skills.
                                                                         “China has committed to becoming a
               Go8 R&D already makes a wide contribution                 world-leader in AI by 2030, expecting $210
               to AI. This ranges, as examples, from machine             billion domestic industry. In 2016 alone,
               learning and robotics, data science and                   North America attracted $15-23 billion in
               autonomous systems, computer vision and                   private sector AI investments. The European
               natural language processing, to augmented                 Union has set a 2020 target for a $20 billion
               reality and pattern recognition.                          investment program in AI. In addition,
                                                                         countries like France and Germany have
               It occurs across many different spheres
                                                                         separately announced significant national
               of activity – such as agriculture, banking,
                                                                         investments in AI. The UK has launched a
               cybersecurity and cybercrime, energy, home
                                                                         $1.8 billion program which adds to significant
               and health care, military, mining, quantum,
                                                                         private sector investment. In Asia, economies
               space, suicide prevention and underwater
                                                                         such as Japan, Korea and Singapore are also
               environments.
                                                                         making large investments into AI technology.”
               Work includes industry partnerships and                   AlphaBeta Advisors13
               examining the implementation aspects of AI,
               be they economic, social, ethical, or cultural,           In addition to ranking 11th on the Government
               as well as collaborating on regulation, public            AI Readiness Index (Oxford Insights), Australia
               policy and governance.                                    ranks 10th on the Automation Readiness Index
                                                                         which measures the extent to which the policy
               How opportunities are taken up depends on                 environment in 25 countries meets an ideal
               what the supportive environment is.                       policy response to intelligent automation14.

               11 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/system/files/media/documents/2019-05/AIML%20final%20release.pdf
               12 Durrant-Whyte, H. 2019. Can AI make the world a better place? Speech to Ashurst series of AI Forums,
                  30 July 2019 (https://www.ashurst.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/the-state-of-ai-in-australia/
                  can-ai-make-the-world-a-better-place-transcript/)
               13 AlphaBeta Advisors 2018, Digital Innovation: Australia’s $315 billion opportunity, commissioned by
                  CSIRO Data61
               14 https://www.automationreadiness.eiu.com/

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For Australia to thrive, the ACOLA report                  The Australian Government has also
calls for the establishment of a robust,                   introduced a consumer data right, to apply
harmonised regulatory environment that                     firstly to the banking sector, followed by
is designed to support local innovation,                   the energy sector and potentially the
help start-up companies to commercialise                   telecommunications sector. This would give
AI technologies and to foster economic                     Australians greatly improved access to their
development.                                               own data, with accredited trusted service
                                                           providers to be allowed access20.
Healthcare, agriculture, mining and advanced
manufacturing are areas the report proposes                Meanwhile, the Australian Information Industry
could present key opportunities15. It is also              Association (AIIA), the peak member body
suggested that human services, financial                   for the information and communications
services, transport and logistics are other                technology (ICT) industry, has called for skills
existing sectors that may be transformed                   development and an effective R&D Tax Incentive
by AI16.                                                   to encourage a more favourable business
                                                           environment for innovation, commercialisation
A September 2019 report commissioned by
                                                           and export of Australian AI products21.
the Federal Minister for Industry, Innovation
and Science assesses that new technologies                 In its 2018–19 Budget, the Australian
such as data analytics, automation and                     Government committed $25 million in
robotics in the mining, oil and gas industries             additional funding for the Cooperative
could add over $70 billion to the economy                  Research Centres (CRC) program to support
in 2030 and create thousands of new jobs                   additional CRC projects with a focus on AI.
domestically17.
                                                           The intent of the CRC investment is to
Access to data, and the effective digital                  strengthen the link between research
infrastructure to make this possible, as well              organisations engaged in AI and machine
as appropriate data collection policies and                learning, and industry seeking solutions or
procedures are considered necessary18.                     exploring opportunities22. It formed part of a
The National Data Commission was in                        broader Government $29.9 million measure,
September 2019 consulting on Data Sharing                  which included AI and machine learning (ML)
and Release legislative reforms to improve                 funding-focused PhD scholarships, and school
data sharing and use across the public sector              related learning to address skill gaps23.
and to enable government agencies to
                                                           However, such investment may need to be
safely share public sector data with trusted
                                                           significantly boosted if Australia is to “close
users, including academics, scientists and
                                                           the gap” with comparable economies, let
innovators19.
                                                           alone achieve AI leadership.

15 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p.13
16 Standards Australia 2019, Developing standards for AI – Hearing Australia’s Voice
17 AlphaBeta Advisors 2019, Staying Ahead of the Game, and The Hon Karen Andrews MP 2019,
   ‘New Technologies to accelerate resources industry’, 16 September (media release)
18 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p.13
19 https://www.datacommissioner.gov.au/resources/discussion-paper
20 https://treasury.gov.au/consumer-data-right
21 https://www.aiia.com.au/documents/aiia-news/2019/digital-skills-shortages-and-r-and-d-tax-incentives-remain-
   obstacles-to-artificial-intelligence-ai-development-in-australia,-says-aiia
22 Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Factsheet: Additional Funding for CRC projects in
   Artificial Intelligence
23 The Treasury 2018, Budget Measures 2018–19 – Part 2: Expense measures

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SUMMIT PAPER
               PRIORITY AREAS FOR DISCUSSION

                  QUESTIONS
                  Threshold AI Question: Is there a frank discussion to be had on the consequences
                  of AI inaction for Australia? If we support action (as the Go8 does), how do we
                  differentiate (if at all) from competitor nations, to deliver Australia a competitive
                  advantage? Or, doesn’t Australia need to be at the forefront of AI, and if not why
                  not? Even if we don’t lead, can we adopt AI effectively unless we participate to
                  some extent in its development?
                  „„ How could Australia make an AI difference, and how could the Go8 contribute?
                  „„ How could conditions that help to translate and commercialise AI be improved?
                  „„ What foundational science, alongside significant technology, is required to support
                     and ensure Australian AI performance?
                  „„ What talent is required? How can the Go8 assist address this and recruitment
                     challenges?

               TOPIC 2 IMPROVING AI DEPLOYMENT
               INTO THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

               How people respond to AI, either by                       of AI in financial markets. The potential for
               embracing, being concerned, or rejecting                  robots and AI to replace jobs was also viewed
               it, depends on the degree to which AI is                  negatively by the majority of respondents.’
               discussed in Australia. The Go8 has a role,               ACOLA 2019 report, p.190
               with key AI industry innovators, in assisting
               and informing ways to navigate this societal              ‘while the impact of AI is often described
               and industry change.                                      as ‘revolutionary’ and ‘impending’, there is
                                                                         no guarantee that AI technologies such as
               “AI systems should be designed in a way                   autonomous vehicles will have their intended
               that respects the rule of law, human rights,              effects, or even that their uptake in society
               democratic values and diversity, and they                 will be inevitable or seamless.’
               should include appropriate safeguards to
                                                                         ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development
               ensure a fair and just society.“                          of artificial intelligence, p.22
               OECD Principle on AI, No. 224
                                                                         “AI is a very important thing and it’s seriously
               ‘attitudes towards AI are mostly positive                 impacting everything at the moment (…) it is
               or neutral. However, there were concerns                  nevertheless on a cycle.”
               about the risks of driverless vehicles, the use           Professor Hugh-Durrant Whyte, Chief Scientist and
               of robots in the armed forces and the use                 Engineer, NSW Government25

               24 https://www.oecd.org/science/forty-two-countries-adopt-new-oecd-principles-on-artificial-intelligence.htm
               25 Durrant-Whyte, H. 2019. Can AI make the world a better place? Speech to Ashurst series of AI Forums,
                  30 July 2019 (https://www.ashurst.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/the-state-of-ai-in-australia/
                  can-ai-make-the-world-a-better-place-transcript/)

         26                                              GO8 AI COLLABORATION AND COMMERCIALISATION SUMMIT
Expertise that can help governments,                         potential AI risks, they are the least prepared
organisations and people understand                          to deal with them, with the top two concerns
how to navigate AI appears essential.                        (reflecting global views) being AI cybersecurity
                                                             vulnerabilities and incorrect AI-based decision
„„ For example, Monash University has
                                                             making31,32.
   examined how the hype of self-driving
   vehicles can be separated from the reality                In January 2019, an open letter from key
   of how they can become part of society26.                 business leaders raised the need for a
                                                             governing body to set standards and
„„ The National Facility for Human-Robot
                                                             guidelines for the ethical use of AI33. And
   Interaction Research examines how
                                                             ACOLA recommended an independently led
   people interact with technological devices
                                                             AI body with membership from government,
   including robots. This builds on previous
                                                             academia and the private sector to provide
   work by UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab to
                                                             leadership and skills in a holistic manner34.
   test robots including in the workplace27 in
   collaboration with Fuji Xerox Technology                  Sectoral analyses also contribute to an
   Group28.                                                  understanding of any potential AI impact
                                                             for industry35. How Australian industry will
„„ In 2018, the University of Adelaide’s
                                                             navigate its uptake of AI depends on how
   Institute of Machine Learning submitted
                                                             well informed and resourced it is, including
   a discussion paper on the Impact of AI
                                                             by accessing academic expertise or research-
   to the Senate Select Committee on the
                                                             based AI approaches.
   Future of Work and Workers29.
                                                             “Unless you think it through, artificial
„„ A University of Queensland researcher
                                                             intelligence will have very serious
   received Facebook funding to examine
                                                             consequences. [There will be] wholesale loss
   how human involvement to support AI can
                                                             of jobs UNLESS you retrain your workforce,
   help adjust AI use, and identify fake news30.
                                                             and challenge them to train up, give them
External to the Go8 a recent report by Deloitte              the time and give them the ability and the
Australia, indicates that while Australian                   remuneration while they train so they can
businesses are the most concerned of seven                   get into higher skills and better paid, more
surveyed countries (Australia, Canada, China,                interesting jobs.”
Germany, France, the UK and the US) about                    Andrew Forrest, Chairman Fortescue Metals36

26 https://lens.monash.edu/@design-architecture/2019/07/05/1375635/emerging-technology-and-artificial-
   intelligence-separating-the-hype-from-reality
27 PwC 2017, Sizing the Prize: What’s the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise?
28 Go8 AI Capability Statement and https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/being-human
29 https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=2f5995c3-6fc3-4d45-9d52-df58c7cce7c8&subId=611580
30 https://theconversation.com/users-and-their-bias-are-key-to-fighting-fake-news-on-facebook-ai-isnt-smart-
   enough-yet-123767
31 Deloitte Insights 2019, Future in the Balance: How Countries are pursuing an AI advantage.
32 https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/media-releases/articles/australia-unprepared-for-ai-risks-070519.html
33 Nott, G. (2019) ‘AI ethics debate urgent say Aussie business chiefs and academics’, Computerworld,
   25 January, retrieved from https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/656724/ai-ethics-debate-urgent-say-
   aussie-business-chiefs-academics/
34 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p. 13
35 PwC 2017, Sizing the Prize: What’s the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise?
36 Kerr, P (2019) ‘Forrest sees long life at FMG’s Eliwana’, The Australian Financial Review, 25 July 2019

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               PRIORITY AREAS FOR DISCUSSION

               “these frontier technologies are all about                 Appropriate skills are also a prime
               augmenting human intelligence, not taking                  consideration, with 72 per cent of Australian
               jobs.”                                                     businesses surveyed indicating there were
               Shaun Gregory, Senior Vice-president and                   moderate to extreme AI skills gaps in
               Chief Technology Officer, Woodside Energy37                Australia.
               Achieving trust has been shown to be                       The ACOLA report notes demand for AI Skills
               important. For example, workers’ trust in                  and expertise has resulted in an international
               AI technologies depends on algorithm                       race to attract AI talent. Australia is potentially
               transparency, having positive AI experiences,              able to take advantage of this if it positions
               and technology responsiveness to people, as                itself as a world leader, plus on where it can
               well as the control level workers can have38.              excel, and through strategic investment40.
               The European Commission recently                           The Go8, as a core contributor of AI research
               recommended that, to understand AI’s                       and skills, can potentially play a large role
               societal impact, research on potential                     in achieving this goal. Beyond research,
               impact should be encouraged, R&D of tools                  cognitive, and technical skills, the ACOLA
               should be supported to enable independent                  report also emphasises the necessity for
               testing of AI systems, and to inform people                human skills such as emotional literacy,
               of the most trustworthy AI solutions, and                  communication, creativity and negotiation skills
               that monitoring mechanisms are needed                      to assist in adapting to AI, as well as context-
               to continually analyse, measure and score                  based skills such as ability to detect poor or
               impact39.                                                  malicious AI or health specific skills in AI41.

                  QUESTIONS
                  „„ Should the Go8’s approach to AI be different to any other ethically and value-affected
                     endeavour of this scale such as space or genomics advancement?
                  „„ How should the Go8 plan to help Australian society and industry adjust to AI?
                  „„ What major gaps need to be addressed to achieve optimal industry adoption of AI?
                  „„ How can societal and industry AI trust be effectively achieved and maintained,
                     and how can the Go8 support this?
                  „„ How should people be educated about AI, and what how can the Go8 assist to
                     ensure appropriate AI-oriented skills in adopters?

               37 Gregory, S. (2017) ‘Woodside says robots and AI will make, not take, jobs’, The Australian Financial Review,
                  14 August
               38 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p.77
               39 High-Level Expert Group on AI (AI HLEG) 2019, Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI
               40 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence p. 5
               41 ACOLA 2019, The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence Chapter 3

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