ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

The recent rapid expansion of automated decision-making enabled by a technologies from machine learning to the blockchain has great potential benefits, while it also creates serious new risks to human rights and welfare. Potential harms range from data discrimination against disadvantaged communities to the spread of disinformation for political and commercial ends. Increasing inequality, lower productivity and diminished economic security have all been highlighted as risks in the coming decade.

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) is a new, cross-disciplinary, national research centre, which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making. Funded by the Australian Research Council from 2020 to 2026, ADM+S is hosted at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, with nodes in seven other Australian universities. The Centre brings together leading researchers in the humanities, social and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network. Its priority domains for public engagement are news and media, transport, social services and health.

The Digital Media Research Centre hosts the QUT node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for ADM+S.

Funding / Grants

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (2020 - 2025)

Chief Investigators

Team

Other Team Members

Prof Julian Thomas, Prof Timoleon Sellis, Prof Heather Horst, Prof Deborah Lupton, Prof Gerard Goggin, Prof Sarah Pink, Prof Mark Sanderson, A/Prof Paul Henman, Prof Mark Andrejevic, Prof Jason Potts, Prof Christine Parker, Prof Christopher Leckie, Prof Leanne Dowse.

Partners

Other Partners

Australian Universities:

RMIT University, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, The University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University.

International University Partners:

Halmstad University, University of Birmingham, Cornell Tech, New York University, Brooklyn Law School, University of Amsterdam, Hans-Bredow-Institute, University of Hamburg.

Industry Partners:

Google Australia, Volvo Cars (Sweden), Australian Red Cross Society, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Limited, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, Victorian Information Commissioner, Bendigo Hospital, Max Kelsen, Consumer Policy Research Centre, Data & Society Research Institute (US), Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong), Algorithm Watch (Germany).