Publication Date: Oct 2024
RRP: $0.00
ISBN: 9781922979667
Format: Ebook
Pages: 199
Category: Coming Soon, Monash University Authors, Science, Technology

The AI (R)evolution

Valuing Country, Culture and Community in a World of Algorithms

Associate Professor Jessica Russ-Smith and Professor Michelle D. Lazarus


How can we walk along the path already led by First Nations communities to generate technology that is supportive of, and not at odds with, all life?

AI has quickly become embedded in our daily lives and ways of working, from healthcare to classrooms to government services. What future are we creating – and what questions should we be asking about it now?

Associate Professor Jessica Russ-Smith and Professor Michelle D Lazarus explore a series of compelling topics about moving through a world dominated by data and algorithms, such as: how can we embed First Nations knowledges into AI datasets? Who is benefitting from an AI-driven future, and whose ethics are we considering? Does AI help or hinder us in addressing contemporary challenges such as climate change?

The AI revolution is ours to shape. Will we place humanity, and the values of social justice and equity, at its core, or will we allow it to enforce entrenched patterns of bias and power inequalities? Let’s stand up for our own future.


Associate Professor Jessica Russ-Smith

Associate Professor Jessica Russ-Smith (she/her) is a sovereign Wiradyuri Wambuul woman, Associate Professor Social Work, Assistant Deputy Head of School Allied Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curriculum and Pedagogy Co-ordinator of Social Work and Chair of the Indigenous Research...
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Professor Michelle D. Lazarus

Michelle D. Lazarus is a professor at Monash University and the author of The Uncertainty Effect. In 2022 she won a prestigious AAUT Award, which recognises Australia’s most outstanding teachers, and her work on uncertainty appears regularly in research publications and in...
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