Join Australian AI researchers Dr Rebecca Marrone and Dr Maria Vieira for an engaging community conversation exploring the opportunities, challenges and ethical questions emerging in the age of artificial intelligence. This lecture will showcase national contributions to AI research while addressing key questions: What role should AI play in creative work? How do we balance innovation with ethical responsibility? What choices do we want young people and communities to make as technology develops? By encouraging debate rather than providing definitive answers, the lectures will empower audiences to critically evaluate both the promises and the challenges of AI. This free session invites audiences to reflect, discuss and engage with some of the most important questions shaping our technological future. Suitable for anyone interested in creativity, emerging technologies, education, ethics, and the future of society.

About the presenters

Dr Rebecca Marrone is a Senior Lecturer: Learning Sciences and Development for the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at Adelaide University. She has a background in Educational Psychology, and her research is primarily in the fields of creativity, wellbeing, and human and artificial cognition.

Dr Maria Vieira is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Adelaide University. She holds a PhD in STEM and a Master’s degree in the Psychology of Creativity. As a member of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), her research explores creativity, human–AI collaboration, and gender equity, with a particular focus on STEM fields in which women remain underrepresented.