Overview

Artificial intelligence (AI) is in the news, in our lives, and changing how many industries do what they do. It also lacks a consistent definition, making it tricky to figure out how to make practical decisions about whether, when, and how to create and use AI in the workplace. In this talk, Associate Professor Elizabeth Williams will draw on her work on the design of AI-enabled systems for safety-critical contexts to share insights into how to think about AI from a systems perspective, with the aim of helping you consider some of the potential risks and benefits of using or developing AI for your own practice.

Learning outcomes

• Improved understanding of the impact of AI in the engineering world as well as in day-to-day life
• Help to realise opportunities for utilising AI professionally
• Become more aware of the risks and types of abuse likely to be encountered.

Program

In-person (AEST)

• 5.45 pm: Arrival 
• 6.15 pm: Optional dinner
• 7.30 pm: Presentation including Q&A 

Webinar (AEST)

• 7.30 pm: Presentation commence including Q&A 
• 8.30 pm: Presentation conclude 

About the presenter

Assoc Professor Elizabeth Williams

Post Assoc Professor of Engineering, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Sciences

Biography

Associate Professor Elizabeth T. Williams is a nuclear physicist by training, with a PhD in nuclear physics from Yale. She joined ANU in 2012, where she held an ARC DECRA Fellowship in nuclear reactions before switching over to research and teaching related to safety-critical systems design, with a focus on artificial intelligence-enabled systems. She created and currently convenes the nuclear systems major and minor for the ANU School of Engineering. She is also creator, producer, and co-host of the Algorithmic Futures Podcast, which features interviews of people actively working on designing, using, and regulating artificial intelligence-enabled technologies in diverse sectors.