Professor Nicolas Suzor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the QUT School of Law, has been appointed to a new Artificial Intelligence Expert Group. The establishment of the group was announced by the Federal Minister for Industry and Science (The Hon Ed Husic MP), following the Government’s interim…
What happens when a robot writes a law article?
The Law, Technology and Humans Journal has published the first machine-generated law review article. Canadian law academics Benjamin Alarie (University of Toronto) and Arthur Cockfield (Queen’s University) approached the Journal’s Chief Editor Professor Kieran Tranter (Faculty of Business & Law) to have an AI software program known as…
Is Australia ready for AI on the Bench?
The rapidly accelerating integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our lives will soon affect court rooms and other legal environments in Australia, and critical threshold issues for a smooth integration of AI into court environments remain unexamined. We do not yet know whether Australian judges understand and/or trust…
Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Law
Dr Michael Guihot (Senior Lecturer in the QUT Faculty of Law), in collaboration with Lyria Bennett Moses (Professor in the UNSW Sydney Faculty of Law), has published a new book which explores the legal and ethical issues arising from developments in artificial intelligence and robotics. Artificial Intelligence, Robots…
Read Dr Michael Guihot’s article about rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence in The Conversation.
Dr Michael Guihot’s article “Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?” has been published in The Conversation. In his article, Michael discusses the ‘many, many guidelines’ from governments and other bodies around the world that seek to instil…
Could algorithms help magistrates and judges in making sentencing decisions?
QUT Faculty of Law’s Dr Nigel Stobbs is collaborating with a team of legal experts, judges and data scientists to create a framework for the efficient and ethical use of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence in Australia’s criminal justice system. Together with Professors Dan Hunter and Mirko Bagaric…