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Can I Help You? Recognising and Improving Artificial Intelligence as History Maker

16th October, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

$10 – $20
Promotional poster for History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture 2025 titled 'Can I Help You? Recognising and Improving Artificial Intelligence as History Maker' featuring a portrait photograph of Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO against a blue gradient background. Event details show State Library of Victoria, 16 October, with History Council of Victoria logo in bottom left corner.
Please join the History Council of Victoria’s Annual Lecture to be delivered by Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO.
The evening will also include the presentation of the History Council of Victoria’s major awards:
  • Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy
  • Lynette Russell Prize for First Peoples’ History in Schools

Can I Help You? Recognising and Improving Artificial Intelligence as History Maker

Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO
University of South Australia/Adelaide University
Can I help you? If you use digital devices, you probably receive many offers of help every day. Help with the next word you might want to write in a message, or with generating a document or an image, or suggestions about what you might buy, watch, study or borrow. This oration explains how these offers of help are part of a wider invitation for us to recognise AI as history maker. Using examples, it shows how AI makes meaning from past data to make recommendations for the present and the future. It also argues that seeing AI as history maker is important for making better AI technologies, and histories. Knowing what histories are written about you and others, and knowing how those histories can be made is critical for social and economic health.

 

Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO PFHEA B.Ed (Hons) Tas, DPhil Oxon

A graduate of the Universities of Tasmania and Oxford, Marnie has a global profile as a philosopher and as an historian. She is Provost and Chief Academic Officer and Bradley Distinguished Professor at the University of South Australia. Her current work looks at how AI makes histories, and how histories might be made in future which are efficient, safe, and ethical. Her writing has been translated into five languages, over 26,000 copies of her books have been sold, and her theories are taught across the world. She has led or been an investigator on a total of $18 million in grants. Her most recent books are History from Loss (edited with Daniel Woolf, 2023) and The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image (edited with Kim Nelson and Mia Treacey, 2023) and she is co-secretary general of the International Commission for the History and Theory of History. In 2022 she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her contribution to higher education governance, leadership, and mentoring.

Details

Date:
16th October
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
$10 – $20
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Organizer

History Council of Victoria
Phone:
0422 519 322
Email:
info@historycouncilvic.org.au

Venue

State Library of Victoria
Seminar Room 1 (La Trobe Street Entrance 3)
Melbourne,VICAustralia
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