Machines Behaving Badly – Toby Walsh in conversation with Lyria Bennett Moses

Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT

Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT.

He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, and has spoken on the topic to the UN, heads of state, parliamentary bodies, and company boards. Toby is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and appeared on the international “Who’s Who in AI” list of influencers. He has authored three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled “Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI”.

Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney.

Lyria Bennett Moses is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and Faculty lead in the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security. Lyria’s research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation.