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In session three of the RegNet AI Series, Deborah Lupton will share insights on how generative AI and the infrastructures required to support these tools affect the natural world.

In this presentation, Deborah Lupton will draw on her current work on how generative AI and the infrastructures required to support these tools affect the natural world. Adopting a social, political and cultural perspective, Deborah draws on critical data studies scholarship, creative methods directed at visualising the language of GenAI, and discusses some early findings from her ongoing empirical research with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society concerning how Australians use GenAI and what they know about its environmental impacts.

About the speaker

is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia. Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning sociology, media and cultural studies, and often involves arts-based and other creative methods for research and community engagement. She is located in the Centre for Social ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ in Health and the Social Policy ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Centre, leading both the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Professor Lupton is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of NSW and has been awarded two honorary doctorates. She is the author/co-author of 20 academic books and editor/co-editor of a further 11 volumes.

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Image description: A red-toned illustration shows a man's head surrounded by swirling AI icons, with small, mischievous witch-like figures flying around him. The man's expression appears disoriented and fatigued, symbolizing the mental overload caused by the overwhelming flood of AI tools and news. The witches represent the chaotic, cackling nature of rapid AI developments, adding to the sense of dizziness and confusion.

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