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In Conversation: The Rise of AI
10 August 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm AWST
Explore the potential of AI with Professor Ajmal Mian as he examines its benefits and risks.
AI technology has the potential to revolutionize our world with its promised benefits of personalized medicine, workplace efficiency, and autonomous vehicles. However, it also poses significant concerns such as perpetuating biases, displacing human workers, and spreading misinformation.
As AI rapidly evolves, join our panel of experts in an exploration of these complex issues. We’ll discuss how we can harness its power while ensuring responsible and ethical use before we’re outrun by its speed.
Meet the Facilitator
Ben O’Shea hosts The West Australian’s flagship news podcast, The West Live. Before that he was editor of Inside Cover, and currently also writes a weekly NFL column for The Sunday Times, hosts a movie show called Reel Talk and regularly reports on science.
Meet the Speakers
Ajmal Mian is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at The University of Western Australia is a renowned scholar with numerous achievements. He has received three esteemed national fellowships, including the 2022 Future Fellowship award from the Australian Research Council. As a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery, and President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society, his expertise is widely recognized.
Ajmal has been honoured with awards like the West Australian Early Career Scientist of the Year (2012) and the HBF Mid-Career Scientist of the Year (2022). He serves as a Chief Investigator on various AI research projects and an editor for multiple scientific journals. He has supervised 24 PhD students to completion and published over 270 scientific papers.
More speakers to be announced in future.
In Conversation
In Conversation is a monthly conversation series held at WA Museum Boola Bardip. Listen to previous conversations.