2020: KEYNOTE: Cybersecurity, Trust, Technology and Democracy

I was honoured to keynote at the Inaugural Conference of the Australasian Higher Education Cybersecurity Service (AHECS), Bridging the Gap Cybersecurity Conference on 4 November 2020.

"The Copernican Moment: Trust, Technology and Democracy”

Presentation Synopsis

The rise of digital platforms over the past 15 years has affected trust in government, servicing, and communications. This trust deficit has been complicated by COVID-19 which has forced governments and education institutions to rapidly adopt and rely on these platforms, often without adequate design foresight and cyber capabilities.

As the co-creator of Nadia, the first AI powered digital human for service delivery and the creator of the digital human cardiac coach, Marie believes that we have arrived at a “Copernican Moment”: the next horizon of computing characterised by human-realistic conversational empathetic systems.

When systems are like people, what does this mean for concepts of ethics, identity, digital immortality, deep fakes and synthetic media and how will this change education?