8-14 September 2025

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Sci-Fight Comedy Debate: Should we fear Ai?

University of Wollongong Science Space UOW Science Space, Innovation Campus, Puckey Avenue, Wollongong

Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. UOW Science Space Theatre Doors open: 6.30 pm Run time 7:00 pm till 8:30ish Tickets $20 Paid bar service available Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. This round, we debate: should we fear AI? Just this year, AI chatbots have given people instructions on how to build a bomb, told users that they loved them, and instructed one user to leave their spouse and a child to stick nails into a live power socket. Before now you had to go to 4chan for that quality of abuse. Has Silicon Valley simply built a better troll? Programmers are running behind ChatGPT and other AI trying to fix the problems as they arise and yet for every bit of fool proofing they achieve, humanity builds a better fool. Our one saving grace right now? It’s bad at Wordle. But this will surely not be the case for long. Or is AI over hyped? Is our distrust […]

$20.00

Artificial Intelligence and Society 5.0 | The Peer Revue Improv Comedy

The Improv Conspiracy Theatre 1/19 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

Due to unforeseeable circumstances Academy Fellow Jenny Hocking is unable to appear on Friday night with Peer Revue as planned. But don’t worry, we still have a great night in store this Friday and plans to revisit the Palace Letters with Jenny Hocking at another date. A big welcome to academic superstar, Academy Fellow and RMIT Professor Lisa Given! Lisa will appear with Peer Revue to tell stories and inspire improv comedy from her work on AI and future society. Hang on to your tickets, hold your sides and get ready for a Friday night of fun with Lisa Given and Peer Revue. Artificial Intelligence and Society 5.0 | The Peer Revue Improv Comedy With the rise of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, society is changing rapidly. How are we to navigate a world of misinformation, data breaches and mass surveillance? With the help of our guest Professor Lisa Given of course! Lisa is an expert in global information science and ethics at RMIT. She’s Co-initator and lead of the Society 5.0 Ethics project. Society 5.0 is “a broad label for the near-future, inseparable interconnection between humans and technologies in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It […]

$24

Make only radical plans – 2023 Spring Encounters: with(in) place

Bell Train Station (meeting point) Bell St / Garnet St, Preston

“2023 Spring Encounters: with(in) place” is series of activities organised by the Alliance for Praxis Research (APR), composed by artists, researchers and PhD candidates from Monash and RMIT. Spring Encounters provides a platform for researchers, activists and artists to connect in a relaxed setting of informal conversations and action. Its purpose is to break the boundaries of disciplines and institutions, creating cracks for open dialogue and the sprouting of ideas. Our program this year will be hosted in different locations across Melbourne. This year, we've designed these gatherings as a means to nurture our connections with place and, simultaneously, to highlight initiatives that are collaboratively shaping communities across Melbourne. From Preston Market to the Catalyst Social Centre, we hope that by the end of this journey, we will be able to entangle relationships, cultivate care, ground ourselves, and reimagine our work and lives with(in) place. 09 September | Make only radical plans Meeting at Bell station | 10 to 12 pm Facilitated by Zheng Chin (APR/Monash University) + TBA Radical planning questions existing power structures to prioritise social justice, sustainability, and community empowerment. By reimagining urban spaces and engaging in social transformation, radical communities seek to create more equitable and […]

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