Acknowledgement of Country//
Headlines:
As part of our AI Breakfast Special this week, we play the first of a six-part audio project being developed by two of our very own 3CR hosts and based upon Radical Literature's 'A Booklet about Artificial Intelligence', written by the AI Safety Symposium. The piece provides a deep-dive into the question, 'What is AI?'//
Multi-award winning gender equality advocate, writer and facilitator Gina Martin joined us for a critical conversation about the privacy and gendered implications of a rise in wearable surveillance technology, including via Kmart’s new Anko-brand camera glasses. Gina recently launched a petition demanding that Kmart group managing director Aleksandra Spaseska take immediate action to remove these glasses from store shelves. The petition has now reached over 54,000 signatures, signalling a strong public desire to get rid of the glasses for good due to privacy concerns, after they sold out almost immediately upon launching last month.//
Ben McLeod, Senior Advisor at the Climate Council, joined us to unpack the need to shield households from data centre bills and pollution. The data centre boom has raised concerns about the impact of these centres on households sharing the same local energy grid, suggesting the need for centres to be powered by renewable energy so that they do not lead to an increase in local energy bills.//
As part of our AI Breakfast Special this week, we spoke with Associate Professor of Social Work at ACU, Jessica Russ-Smith, a sovereign Wiradyuri Wambuul woman, from the Smith and McGuinness Wiradyuri matriarchy. Her work focuses on the embodiment of First Nations sovereignty and critical anti-colonial practice. Jess co-authored the groundbreaking 2024 book "The AI (R)evolution: Valuing Country, Culture and Community in a World of Algorithms", which challenges dominant narratives about artificial intelligence by centring First Nations sovereignty. Today, Jess discussed the current harms of the AI transformation on Country, climate and social justice, the issue of data sovereignty, and ways in which we can reconceptualise AI using First Nations Peoples' ways of knowing and being with technology. Further discussion of “The AI (R)evolution: Valuing Country, Culture and Community in a World of Algorithms” by Jess and co-author, Professor Michelle D. Lazarus can be found here.//
Songs//
Bawuypawuy - Drifting Clouds//
Emily, Inez, Leila, Priya, River, Candy
