At the ANU School of Cybernetics, we talk a lot about translating across boundaries, whether it be across disciplines, sectors, cultures and more. …

This week marks 1 year since I began my PhD at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics. It’s been an amazing adventure so far. Lots of people wonder what I’m actually up to. What does a PhD student actually do in their first year (in Australia at least)? Well…

Building new AI tools can be exciting and rewarding — finally solving a problem that may have plagued your organisation for a long time and will unlock newfound efficiencies and insights. But as a data scientist or developer, it can also be daunting once you realise your power: the tech…

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou Dignity can be difficult to define and is largely misunderstood. Many of us don’t talk about dignity much and, when it does come…

Earlier this year, Chamira Gamage (CEO of Thinkrs)and the wider Thinkrs team were introduced to Lorenn Ruster, former strategy consultant and, at the time, recent graduate of Master of Applied Cybernetics at 3A Institute at the Australian National University. Thinkrs were at a point of pondering big and profound questions…

Read full blog post on Centre for Public Impact website here. What are the implications of an AI-enabled public service on #HumanLearningSystems? And, how can HLS be applied to AI development processes? Earlier this year, the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) joined a range of partners to publish an e-book…

Last weekend I was doing one of those “big cleanups”. Partly COVID lockdown-induced, partly in anticipation of starting a new chapter with a desire for some relative order in our highly uncertain times. In the process, I found a “letter to myself”, written as a part of the first few…

CPI’s Thea Snow has joined forces with Lorenn Ruster, a Master in Applied Cybernetics student from the 3A Institute at the Australian National University, to explore the nature of AI ethics instruments (principles, frameworks, guidelines etc) in government and how they might be reimagined. In a previous blog, the context…

“Technology is the result of human imagination” and so “all technologies to some degree reflect, and reciprocally affect, human values”. (Friedman & Hendry 2019, p.1) If we’re designing and adapting technologies stemming from our imagination, then what’s shaping our imagination? Biases, assumptions, ‘researcher stance’, ‘ reflexivity’, ‘positionality’… these are all…