In Conversation: The rise of AI
Dates
Thursday 10 August | 6.30pm – 9pm
6.30pm | Doors open, bar open
7pm | Conversation
Standard | $18
Concession | $16
Membership
Friend Members receive 15% off ticket pricing for this event.
Site access information
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Explore the potential of AI with an expert panel as they examine the 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 our 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 our 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 Mian 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 at the Premier’s Science Awards (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.
Associate Professor Sarah Collins is a cultural historian and musicologist with a particular interest in the relationship between the arts, politics, and technology. She has published widely and held visiting fellowships all over the world. Together with bio-artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, and cultural historian Elizabeth Stephens, Sarah is part of an ARC Discovery Project 'A Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour' which has been contributing to debates about the use of AI and other types of automation across the arts and living systems (including food production). The project has uncovered how technologies of automation continue to change notions of 'life' and work.
The venue is fully accessible. Please contact reception@museum.wa.gov.au if you are attending and would like the organisers to arrange Auslan interpretation.
A safe house for difficult discussions.
In Conversation presents passionate and thought-provoking public dialogues that tackle big issues and difficult questions featuring diverse perspectives and experiences.
Held monthly at the WA Museum Boola Bardip, in 2023 In Conversation will take different forms such as facilitated panel discussions, deep dive Q&As, performance lectures, screenings and more, covering a broad range of topics and ideas.
For these monthly events, the Museum collaborates with a dynamic variety of presenting partners, co-curators and speakers, with additional special events featuring throughout the year.
Join us as we explore big concepts of challenging and contended natures, led by some of WA’s most brilliant minds.
Want to catch up? Listen to previous conversations here.
