Community safety, policing, and AI
Event description
The AI for Law Enforcement and Community Safety lab (AiLECS) is excited to present to you, as part of our Setting the Agenda Series, an ethics symposium and participatory design workshop: Community safety, policing, and AI : putting ethical principles into practice.
This free, in-person event runs over one and a half days in the Melbourne CBD.
Dates: Thursday May 23 (Day 1) | Friday May 24 (Day 2)
Time: Day 1 - 9am to 5pm | Day 2 - 9am to 12.30pm
Where: Monash College, Docklands, Melbourne - 750 Collins St, Room 903, Level 9
Day one opens with a presentation by the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Authority (ANZPAA), sharing insights on ethical AI frameworks and the task of designing and operationalising their AI policing principles. This will be followed by keynote talks and panel discussions featuring speakers from law enforcement, justice, academia, and others engaged with the design, delivery and impacts of AI in policing.
Day two is a half-day workshop bringing together collective expertise to build on knowledge shared in Day 1. Attendees will work together in groups to surface ethical challenges and human impacts relating to how AI is transforming the practice of policing in our region, and articulate strategies to effectively operationalise AI principles to achieve positive law enforcement outcomes for our communities.
Keynote Speakers:
Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (Presenting Speaker TBA)
Jeannie Paterson — Professor of Law & Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, University of Melbourne
Keynote: Safety and suspicion: ethics, regulation and the limits of AI in policing
Eva Tsahuridu — Deputy President, Professional Standards; Police Registration & Services Board (Vic)
Keynote: AI, moral imagination and ethical policing
Lyria Bennett Moses — Professor of Law and Justice, and Director of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation
Keynote: Oversight of law enforcement intelligence and the use of AI
About the event:
In 2023, the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Authority (ANZPAA), published a set of Police Artificial Intelligence Principles.
These Principles promote cross-jurisdictional consistency and the
ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) by Australian and New
Zealand police. In practice, real world scenarios inevitably entail
complexity where multiple options for action are available, none of
which are necessarily absolutely acceptable from an ethical perspective.
So - what happens next?
Data has always informed policing, and understanding of local context has always been an important enabler for using that data. AI now gives police capabilities to collect and analyse information at unprecedented speed and volumes; but underlying AI training data is not always representative of local conditions or the lived experience of local communities. Whether AI tools can succeed in helping assure the safety of diverse communities may ultimately depend on how well small data knowledge is integrated into big data solutions.
With a mix of keynote and panels, speakers at this event will share grassroots and leadership views on how local realities intersect with broader ethical challenges associated with police use of AI, and what this means for the practice of AI-informed policing in Australia and New Zealand. The event will conclude with a hands-on design thinking workshop for attendees.
Smart policing or dumb logic? Lowering crime or heightening risk?
Join us to help set the agenda on necessary context for police use of AI.
Event Schedule
Thursday 23 May
9:00AM | Guests arrive, coffee and light refreshments served |
9.30 – 9.50AM Session 1 | Acknowledgement of Country and opening remarks |
9.50 – 10.30AM Session 2 | Keynote: ANZPAA AI Policing Principles |
10.30 – 11.50AM Session 3 | Panel 1: (Community perspectives) |
11.50 – 12.30AM Session 4 | Keynote: Jeannie Paterson Safety and suspicion: ethics, regulation and the limits of AI in policing |
12.30 – 1.15PM | LUNCH |
1.15 – 2.00PM Session 5 | Keynote: Eva Tsahuridu |
2.00 – 3.20PM | Panel 2: (Law Enforcement perspectives) |
3.20 – 3.45PM | AFTERNOON TEA |
3.45 – 4.30PM Session 7 | Keynote: Lyria Bennett Moses Oversight of law enforcement intelligence and the use of AI |
4.30PM | Closing remarks |
Friday 24 May
9.00AM | Guest arrive, coffee and light refreshments served |
9.30AM | Design workshop: Ethics in action, ethics by design |
| 11AM | [Working morning tea] |
12.15PM | Symposium close |