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Professor Terry Flew

Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney

Panel: AI, News, Media and Trust

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mediated Trust and Artificial Intelligence

In this short presentation I will outline the concept of mediated trust, and how it relates to what I term the ‘Three I’s’ of ideas, interests, and institutions engaged with digital technologies. I will argue that, in contrast with the early Internet,  where ideas about digital freedom preceded corporate dominance, Artificial intelligence (AI) is already dominated by a small number of powerful corporate interests. The critical question will be what powers governments seek on behalf of their citizens to regulate AI in the public interest, particularly in a post-globalised world characterised by competing tech nationalisms.

 

Bio

Professor Terry Flew is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow and Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015), Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021), and Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance (Springer, 2022). He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020, and is an ICA Fellow, elected in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). His ARC Laureate Fellowship is a five-year study of Mediated Trust: Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Futures.

 

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