What does AI safety really mean? We explore the big questions facing Australia: the role of the Office of AI, companion bots, the National AI Plan, AI accountability, data centres, and Digital Duty of Care to protect Australians online Listen now admscentre.org/3TKj7CC #AISafety #ResponsibleAI

What Does AI Safety Really Mean?

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New ADM+S research introduces a design framework to help technologies like e-scooters, ride-sharing and delivery apps better balance convenience with safer, more inclusive communities bit.ly/4wDlKV2 #ResponsibleAI #SmartCities

Can Australia effectively implement a ‘digital duty of care?’ 📲 Australia's proposed digital duty of care is an important step toward reducing online harms, but it will only be effective if it is accompanied by an ecosystem of platform observability. 👉 bit.ly/4b26vg0 #socialmedia #bigtech

New research from the ADM+S, developed in partnership with Tactical Tech, Good Things Foundation Australia & ACMI, explores how AI literacy can help communities recognise & respond to emerging AI-powered voice scams #AILiteracy #ScamAwareness #DigitalInclusion #VoiceCloning bit.ly/3Sz1qpi

Whose voice is it anyway? Designing community resources to navigate AI voice scams - ADM+S Centre

To better understand how communities can prepare for growing AI-powered voice scams, researchers from the ADM+S worked with Tactical Tech, Good Things Foundation Australia and ACMI to develop and test...

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We’re inviting school students and teachers to submit their burning questions about AI. Whether your question is big, small, weird, funny, or seriously important — we want to hear it. Selected questions answered on Ask an Expert podcast during National Science Week admscentre.org/ask-an-expert

Young Victorians will shape safer social media via a 2026 VicHealth grant. Led by ADM+S Swinburne University of Technology, UniMelb & UQ with @AlannahMadeline 👉Read more admscentre.org/4xx6VVe #VicHealth #ResearchImpact #DigitalCapabilities #SocialMediaAds

Two thirds of regional and remote #FirstNations families don’t have home internet. This is what the digital gap looks like. Read the new report edited by Daniel Featherstone, ACCAN Board member and RMIT researcher: apo.org.au/sites/defaul...

New from @theconversation.com: ADM+S researchers discuss how proposed AI-driven ads will blur the lines between products, ideas and political messaging amongst everyday content. They argue for essential minimum disclosures for #DigitalAdvertising on social media. 👉 bit.ly/4udvNyv

Online ads are becoming harder to spot – but we’re not powerless to stop it

Increasingly, digital advertising is designed to dissolve into the flow of the content you consume online.

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Leading researchers in digital governance & AI ethics from ADM+S & the Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics have released a new policy brief in response to the Australian Government's Issues Paper on a proposed Digital Duty of Care for online services admscentre.org/3ShnlAV

Have you ever received a phone call & wondered whether you were speaking to a human or an AI agent? Jean Burgess speaks to ABC Radio host about her recent experience with an AI cold-calling “real estate assistant” admscentre.org/3QaL9pC @jeanburgess.bsky.social #VoiceAI #GenerativeAuthenticity

AI cold-calling “real estate assistant” raises issues of consent, trust and transparency - ADM+S Centre

An ABC Brisbane Radio host has described receiving a cold call from an AI “real estate assistant,” prompting discussion with ADM+S Associate Director Jean Burgess about the implications for transparen...

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A new @theconversation.com article by ADM+S researchers Silvia Montaña-Niño & @tjthomson.bsky.social provides strategies to identify AI generated content. 👉Familiarise yourself with #AIslop 👉Look deeply at details and inconsistencies 👉Look widely & verify the content source More: bit.ly/4dxmggI

Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop

Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?

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What happens when search engines stop linking to information and start summarising it for us? 🔍 Read "Framing the future of search: A discourse analysis of Google's AI Overviews": bit.ly/4fAFa7M This study is part of the Australian Search Experience 2.0 project More: admscentre.org/4nFkYDH

Google AI Overview framing the future of search - ADM+S Centre

Google’s AI-generated search summaries are being framed in markedly different ways by Google, technology journalists and SEO professionals, according to new ADM+S research examining how the technology...

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What if the internet were built differently? ADM+S researchers argue how platform co-ops, public digital infrastructure and decentralised technologies could help create a fairer and more democratic online future. 👉 Read now: bit.ly/4tMJDru #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

Congratulations to ADM+S researcher, Dr Yuncheng Hua from UNSW, who has been selected for the competitive UNSW Founders Engineering Spinout Fellowship. 👉 Read more: bit.ly/4uz45gn

ADM+S researcher secures UNSW Spinout Fellowship to advance GenAISim platform - ADM+S Centre

Dr Yuncheng (Devin) Hua has been selected for the UNSW Founders Engineering Spinout Fellowship, a 12-month program designed to support early-career researchers in translating their work into valuable ...

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Join us for the Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) Salon, Friday 15 May. The PERN Salon will host Nick Srnicek, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy, King’s College London. Register now: bit.ly/4dpOIAW

The 2025 ADM+S Annual Report is now available. The 2025 edition highlights the Centre's major contributions to responsible, ethical, and inclusive approaches to automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence (AI). 👉 admscentre.org/2025-Annual-Report

In this new article, ADM+S researcher Georgia van Toorn breaks down what the new NDIS eligibility criteria really means and how computational systems may be used to support decision-making 👉 Read more: bit.ly/4u8UjRU #NDIS #robodebt

This new submission responds to the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability and Works Committee Inquiry on Data Centres. It argues for a stronger framework that treats data centres as infrastructure with environmental, social and public impacts. 🔗 bit.ly/48gTspR #datacentres #AI

Register now for this Australian Internet Observatory webinar, exploring how methods such as data donation, interviews, surveys and other approaches can be combined for digital platform research. 💻 👉Register now at admscentre.org/4dOWLrW

New research: Misleading political ads flooded social media during Australia’s 2025 federal election. Using 22,000+ ads collected directly from voters’ phones, researchers captured what Australians actually saw online beyond platform ad libraries apo.org.au/node/332660 #PoliticalAdvertising

New research: Misleading political ads flooded social media during Australia’s 2025 federal election. Using 22,000+ ads collected directly from voters’ phones, researchers captured what Australians actually saw online beyond platform ad libraries apo.org.au/node/332660 #PoliticalAdvertising

Do you listen to podcasts, radio, audiobooks or other audio media? Do you think you have ever heard an AI-Generated voice? Take part in our online survey and help researchers find out how everyday Australian adults think and feel about Voice AI admscentre.org/VoiceAIMedia #VoiceAI #CitizenScience

We are excited to launch Careful Minds: AI, Ethics and Society, a new podcast series from the ADM+S hosted by PhD Student Rayane El Masri. The series will host conversations with researchers, technologists, philosophers & policy thinkers. Listen on Spotify spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/XITXV2Nfr1b

As voice AI becomes embedded in toys and everyday life, how do we help children not just use it, but question & help design it? www.admscentre.org.au/enhancing-pr... #AIethics #VoiceAI #CoDesign

Enhancing primary years AI literacy and ethics with a voice AI chatbot experience - ADM+S Centre

The ADM+S, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Digital Child), and QUT Gen AI Lab have partnered on a new project designed to help young children explore key ethical challenges associated ...

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The March edition of the ADM+S Newsletter is here. Explore the latest ADM+S research, news, publications, events and more mailchi.mp/rmit/2026-ma...

This International Women’s Day, we acknowledge and celebrate all researchers at ADM+S, whose work contributes to building fairer, more equitable systems and advancing equality in AI and automation across society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSp... #IWD2026

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The new research article by ADM+S researcher Robert Sparrow and James Brown, 'Against Imaginary Friends: Why Digital Companions Are No Solution to Social Isolation’ is out now in Communications of the #ACM. 👉 Read the full article and watch the video now: bit.ly/4qEc3Di #AI #digitalcompanions

Congrats to ADM+S researchers at QUT’s GenAI Lab, awarded Best Presentation at the Next Generation Responsible AI Symposium. Dr Snoswell showcased the GenAI Arcade, a tool making the inner workings of GenAI more visible. Co-authors: William He, Jean Burgess & Kevin Witzenberger. bit.ly/493aKqZ

Making AI work visible with the GenAI Arcade: best presentation award at Next Generation Responsible AI Symposium - ADM+S Centre

ADM+S researchers from QUT’s GenAI Lab have been awarded Best Presentation at the Next Generation Responsible AI Symposium, jointly hosted by CSIRO and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning at...

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ADM+S Researcher, Prof @kimweatherall.bsky.social features in Crikeys latest ‘Cut Through’ podcast to explain the government’s AI strategy, what’s missing from the plan and how Australia measures up against other countries when it comes to AI policymaking. Listen now: bit.ly/4oVNCje

In this new article from @theconversation.com ADM+S researchers @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Christine Parker and @kimweatherall.bsky.social explore Australia’s newly released National AI Plan and what that means for the public and more. 👉 Read the full article: bit.ly/4phjcsp #AI #AIregulation