The flood of misinformation online is not going away any time soon. We could slow its spread by regulating all technology platforms to kill engagement based algorithms, but our government seems to have little appetite for going head to head with the tech industry, and it's only a part of the story anyway. Regulation is… Continue reading Building our critical thinking muscles
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ADSEI Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
This is the ADSEI submission to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres. The Australian Data Science Education Institute has significant concerns about the unconstrained proliferation of data centres in Australia, as well as the unregulated and unethical implementation of Large Language Model Chatbots (LLMs) by commercial organisations. Our primary concerns centre… Continue reading ADSEI Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
Getting past the fear factor
I was out at a tech meetup last week when I mentioned I was going to a conference on stats education this week. “Sounds riveting” said someone, with the deepest sarcasm. The thing is, stats are riveting. Stats are powerful. If we’re not showing kids the magic of it all, how can we expect them to love it like we do?
Regulate Tech Companies, not Users
Social media companies absolve themselves of responsibility for everything. What if we didn't let them?
Questioning the Answers: The Role of Scepticism in Data Science (and Education!)
What is education for, how do we measure it, how SHOULD we measure it, and how can we fix it? At the moment we're mostly measuring atar and student retention as the most important outcomes of the system. How many kids make it to year 12 and what do they score? We should be measuring: covid deniers, flat earthers, anti vaxxers, sovereign citizens, people with blind faith in technology.