This strategy offers a vision and opportunity to guide stakeholders, as they go about identifying and agreeing upon the specific actions required to build the strongest STEM workforce possible to support Australia’s prosperity.

In this episode of the Applied Podcast, Professor Hugh Bradlow FTSE, President of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering explains how machine learning can navigate big data, deriving patterns from data with no obvious mathematical causal relationship, and so redefining healthcare.

Members of the Victorian Parliament have established an All-Party Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to learn more about this technology and the impacts it will have on Victorians in the future. This primer provides a basic explanation of some of the key issues surrounding AI.

This ATSE position statement argues that Australia’s mitigation and adaptation efforts will be strongly enhanced by the timely adoption and further advancement of science and technology innovations, supported by government policy settings that encourage investment in technologies already available.

Australia needs to embrace digital health technologies and focus on data integration and standardisation.