2024
Articles
04 November 2024
Climate Change: It is real but are we misreading or over-reacting to the impact on natural evolution of human settlement as the cause of the problem?
Professor David Hensher debates whether the impact of human activity on the climate been overstated, and whether the changes we observe are correlational in nature rather than causal.
23 October 2024
Humanising AI could lead us to dehumanise ourselves
Claims of AI-powered empathy are misleading and can take advantage of people seeking companionship, write Dr Raffaele F Ciriello and Angelina Ying Chen for The Conversation.
16 October 2024
The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions - and risks
We should treat sexbot use like other potentially problematic behaviours such as gambling, writes Dr Raffaele F Ciriello for The Conversation.
04 October 2024
Wondering what AI actually is? Here are the 7 things it can do for you
AI is more than chatbots. It impacts many things beyond the flashy conversational tools - often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes, write Associate Professor Sandra Peter and Professor Kai Riemer for The Conversation.
04 October 2024
Qatar Airways is set to acquire 25% of Virgin Australia. Who will be the winners?
Qatar Airways' previous attempts to expand in Australia haven't always gone smoothly, but it's easy to see why Virgin and Qatar might be excited by this deal, writes Professor Rico Merkert for The Conversation.
02 October 2024
The Foodstuffs merger is dead - but that still won't fix NZ's over-concentrated supermarket sector
If competition creates better prices for consumers, then splitting up New Zealand's concentrated supermarket sector makes more sense than consolidating it, writes Lisa Asher for The Conversation.
02 October 2024
A tale of two continents – the experience of on demand bus transport
Professor Emerita Corinne Mulley and Professor John Nelson consider the effectiveness of various implementations of on demand transport (ODT) bus-based services both in Australia and overseas.
26 September 2024
Sydney University's MBA and Master of Management in world top 50
The latest rankings have revealed the University of Sydney Business School remains in elite company for education worldwide.
23 September 2024
OpenAI's data hunger raises privacy concerns
It is not difficult to imagine a scenario in which centralised control over many kinds of data would let OpenAI exert significant influence over people, writes Professor Uri Gal in The Conversation.
19 September 2024
Optimism fuels national productivity and innovation
A study of 42 countries over a 20-year span found one factor had a significant impact on investment in research and development.