The Tech Policy Design Centre at The Australian National University (ANU) is partnering with Australian parliamentarians in a new initiative to promote better tech regulation. Launched at Parliament House, the Parliamentary Group of Friends of Tech Policy, is co-chaired by the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah MP, Kate Chaney MP, Senator David Pocock, Senator
The soaring popularity of the Australian women’s soccer team after their semi-final run at this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 has seen experts at The Australian National University (ANU) pick Matilda as their Word of the Year. The team name (Matildas, or Tillies for short) and singular form (Matilda) were everywhere as Matildas mania swept the country, with Australians
Financial and cost-of-living pressures are among the top issues impacting Australians’ sense of belonging, pride and social cohesion in 2023, according to a major study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute. Economic pressures, compounded with growing concern about inequality, has seen social cohesion in Australia plummet
White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new research led by experts at The Australian National University (ANU). In the study, more people thought AI-generated White faces were human than the faces of real people. The same wasn’t true for images of people of colour. The reason for the discrepancy is that AI
Severe wildfires are putting global timber production at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Sheffield and the University of Cambridge shows. The research team analysed data from 2001 to 2021 and found 18.5 to 24.7 million hectares of timber-producing forest, an area equivalent to the size of Great Britain, has been lost to