Presenters

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  Professor Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales

  Professor Toby Walsh

  University of New South Wales

  Toby Walsh is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61, guest professor at the Technical University of Berlin, and adjunct professor at QUT. He has been named by the Australian newspaper as one of the "rock stars" of Australia's digital revolution and is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives. He has been a leading voice in the discussion about autonomous weapons, speaking at the UN in New York and Geneva on the topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and recipient of the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT. He appears regularly on TV and radio and has authored two books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled "2062: The World that AI Made".

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  Professor James Bailey, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

  Professor James Bailey

  School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

  

  James Bailey is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, and has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is a researcher and educator in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science.

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  Professor Jeannie Paterson, Melbourne Law School

  Professor Jeannie Paterson

  Melbourne Law School

  

  Jeannie Marie Paterson teaches and researches in the areas of contracts, consumer protection and consumer credit law, as well as the role of technological change in these contexts. Jeannie’s research covers three interrelated themes: Support for consumers experiencing hardship, marginalisation or vulnerability, The impact and potential of AI and automation on consumer decision making and choice, and Legislative design, including the relationship between general law and statutory standards and soft law and coregulation options. Jeannie completed her BA/LLB (Hons) at ANU and her PhD at Monash University. She previously lectured at the Faculty of Law at Monash University and, prior to that time, was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). Jeannie is the coauthor (with Andrew Robertson and Arlen Duke) of Principles of Contract Law (5th ed, 2015) and has written extensively on contract and consumer law. She currently coteaches New Technology Law (with Cam Whittfield) in the JD and Australian Consumer Law (with Hal Bolitho) in the MLM, along with Legal Method & Reasoning in the JD. With Elise Bant, Jeannie holds ARC Discovery Grants for projects on 'Remedies in Common Law and Under Statute for Misleading Conduct' and on 'A Coherent Law of Misleading Conduct'. Jeannie is also involved with several ongoing research and advocacy projects on consumer rights, including with the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, the Networked Society Institute, the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network, the Consumer Action Law Centre and West Justice. Jeannie is the cocoordinator of the Digital Citizens Research Network at MLS and, with Dr Andrea Cook, leads the Universal Access and Design Research Program at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.