The Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Society Committee within the Australian Computer Society (ACS) serves as a leading voice in examining the profound and far-reaching impact of AI on individuals, organisations, and communities. Bringing together experts from academia, industry, government, and civil society, the committee is dedicated to fostering a balanced, informed, and responsible approach to the development and deployment of AI technologies across Australia.
Artificial Intelligence has rapidly evolved from a specialised research domain into a foundational technology shaping nearly every sector, including healthcare, education, finance, public services, and creative industries. While AI offers significant opportunities to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making, it also raises critical questions around ethics, bias, accountability, privacy, and the future of work
MACS
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Dr Mark Pedersen is the CTO at KJR, one of Australia’s leading Software Quality Engineering Consultancies and a leading practitioner in Responsible AI implementation. With a PhD in AI focusing on natural language processing and a background in safety critical systems, Mark has been working at the confluence of AI and software quality, reliability and safety for the majority of his career.
FACS CP
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Lynn is a full time Chair and Non-Executive Director, specialising in the enterprise governance of strategic digital and data transformation, innovation, AI and emerging technologies. She is a Director for a number of private, listed and government organisations, and also holds strategic advisory and start-up industry mentor position
AACS
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Lisa Qu is General Manager, Group Growth at NextEd Group (ASX:NXD), where she leads product, go-to-market and commercial strategy, including enterprise AI capability programs and workforce-focused AI initiatives.
AACS
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Alessio Bonti is an Associate Professor at RMIT University and former AI Lead at IBM. In his industry role, he worked with all major Australian banks and led notable innovations including the first commercial AI for Oncology and a pioneering multimodal blockchain tracking system for China’s One Road One Belt initiative.
