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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
- 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
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.
