Science for Policy event on the role of digital technologies in economic recovery and resilience - and, in particular, how Australia should leverage Artificial Intelligence as a key pillar in economic recovery

1. Science and technology lead product growth
“A lesson from the 2008 financial crisis was that countries with weaker
innovation systems suffered more from it and that subsequent R&D budget
reductions made them unable to build the innovation systems they would
need to become more resilient, knowledge-based economies.”
United Nations Conferenceon Trade and Development, Policy Brief No. 80

2. AI and industry

3. What is AI?
Planning Reasoning
Vision

4. Examples vs
rule-based
approach

5. Australia’s place in the
AI ecosystem

6. High-value opportunity areas
AI for science AI for cyber AI for recovery and
resilience
Responsible AI

7. The role of ethics in AI
1. Human, social and environmental wellbeing
2. Human-centred values
3. Fairness
4. Privacy protection and security
5. Reliability and safety
6. Transparency and explainability
7. Contestability
8. Accountability

8. Tech in a post-COVID Australia

9. Australia’sNational ScienceAgency
Thank you
Dr Cathy Foley,CSIROChief Scientist
Dr Jon Whittle,DirectorCSIRO'sData61