Hub roundtable discussion with Australian Human Rights Commission on human rights and technology

The Hub recently hosted in a roundtable discussion with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) about its discussion paper on human rights and technology.

This follows on from the Hub’s written submission to the AHRC on the discussion paper, but brought together a broader range of expertise in addition to law including social science, medicine and computer science.

The discussion was broad ranging, but including questions of scope, perspectives on privacy and what that means, appropriate forms of consultation and education, the importance of an inequality/justice lens, the particularities of AI in the health context, concerns about facial recognition and biometrics more broadly, and much more.

The Hub is looking forward to the next phase of the Commission’s important work in this area.