Artificial Intelligence and the Professions

To register please email [email protected] 

Date: Thursday the 5th of December

Starting time: 10am (AEDT) *

Finish Time: 5pm (AEDT)

Access: Will be via Zoom, a link will be sent in the days before the Symposium

Accessibility information: Please feel very free to let us know if we can do anything to make the event more accessible for you.

* All times will be in Australian Eastern Daylight Time, which is UTC+11. It is 3 hours ahead of Perth, and one hour behind Queensland).

Full program below: 

Keynote:  Professor Deen Sanders OAM

(Deloitte)

The ethics of AI and [professional] identity

Nathan Wood (TUHH)

AI and Military Professionals

Keynote: Jennifer Flinn

(Murray Chambers)

Use of AI to regulate citizens’ rights and obligations: the role of lawyers and the importance of legal ethics

Rob Sparrow and Gene Flenady

(Monash University)

Bullshit Universities: The Future of Automated Education

Patric Hagen Harting

(Open University)

Super-human AI’s Challenge to Professional Ethics

Felicity Bell and Justine Rogers

(UNSW)

Gen AI in High-Stakes Legal Work: implications for professional reasoning, ethics, and judgement

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Deen Sanders OAM

Indigenous leader and cultural man (Worimi Giparr), Lead Partner (Deloitte Integrity), and now  recognised as Australia’s Chief Professionalist

Jennifer Flinn 

Member of the Western Australia Bar Association, barrister at Murray Chambers, and author of 'The aftermath from the Robodebt Royal Commission:   Lessons learned for in-house counsel' (2024) 98 ALJ 7

Overview

In a 2024 report on Generative AI and the future of work, the International Monetary Fund reported that:

“Almost 40 percent of global employment is exposed to AI, with advanced economies at greater risk but also better poised to exploit AI benefits than emerging market and developing economies. In advanced economies, about 60 percent of jobs are exposed to AI, due to prevalence of cognitive-task-oriented jobs.”[1]

In contrast to previous revolutions in technology and work, the professions are more vulnerable to impact and change from artificial intelligence.

At the same time, these ‘cognitive-task-oriented jobs’ will also need to navigate using artificial intelligence more than others and to take part in navigating what our codes and guidelines in these areas should be[2].

This online symposium will bring together academics, practitioners, researchers, and others to discuss what generative AI means for the professions and for professional ethics.

Topics of Interest

Questions to be explored will include:

·         What does AI mean for the professions?

·         What does AI mean for professional ethics?

·         What impact with AI have on education and training pathways for those in the professions?

·         What does the public have a right to expect of the professions with respect to AI?

·         What does AI mean for the role of special knowledge in the professions?

The AAPAE invites abstracts on these and related topics, to be submitted before 30th of November 2024.

[1] Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work. (n.d.). IMF.

[2] Floridi, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence : Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities, p. 175