Persicaria conducts regular, on the ground research to gauge public opinion and usage over evolving trends of AI usage, identifying emerging risks and opportunities to improve ethical judgement across society. We publish our findings periodically here as well as more informal articles, and give recommendations to major sectors and industries.
Our latest research and surveys condensed into accessible and easy to understand articles, for your review.
We combine our most recent public perception on AI crime with the first of many soon to be instances in the national headlines, and give our outlook and recommendations for legislative change in dealing with malicious users using AI for personal gain.
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In this article, we combine our findings of Australians’ growing uncertainty and anxiety against the malicious use of AI against their personal lives, how that may worsen a chronic scam problem against the elderly and the necessity for state and federal governments to arise against more sophisticated scams utilising such technologies.
Read moreWe explore the current optimism with AI in revolutionising productivity against a more dark reality of the potential consequences of erred decision making, and our recommendations for increasing business responsibility with employee training.
Read moreWe conduct physical surveys into a range of different secondary schools in the Sydney region, the effectiveness of the current Department of Education restrictions in preventing academic misconduct and give our recommendations for improving the current approach towards AI tools in schools.
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We expose the current chronic lack of preparedness in dealing with the emergence of a new form of bullying through AI, its coming impacts and how the Australian social media ban plays into shaping negative AI use.
Read moreThis investigation examines whether current school responses to artificial intelligence are sufficient to prepare students for ethical and effective AI use.
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We explore the anxiety surrounding AI usage by teachers, the implications of the Department of Education’s current AI framework and a potential to use these tools to boost student learning outcomes.
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We tackle the implications of the emergence of AI in sexual harassment crimes, its new vectors of harm and provide our recommendations for both state and societal responses on proactively combatting AI usage for crime.
Read moreIn this article, we examine the current emerging gap of education quality and lack of resources between schools in Australia, the uncertainty of AI in potentially widening this gap as well as also a tool to finally bridge this divide if used for good.
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