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Three ways robots can save lives in war

  • Written by Sean Welsh, Doctoral Candidate in Robot Ethics, University of Canterbury

Military robots are not all bad.

Sure, there are risks and downsides of weaponised artifical intelligence (AI), but there are upsides too. Robots offer greater precision in attacks, reduced risk of collateral damage to civilians, and reduced risk of “friendly fire”.

AI weapons are not being developed as weapons of mass destruction....

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Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Newspoll has delivered a sweeping new setback to Malcolm Turnbull, with a big cut in his “better prime minister” rating and Labor increasing its two-party lead to a massive 55-45%.

The blow comes as the government and opposition prepare for a byelection in the Sydney seat of Bennelong, expected to be on December 16, following Saturday&rs...

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Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Queensland “soft” voters are deeply disillusioned with both the Palaszczuk government and the Nicholls opposition, with many predicting a hung parliament from the November 25 state election, according to focus group research.

These voters are dismayed by the quality of Queensland’s political leadership, and struggling to find...

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Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences

  • Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Liberal John Alexander today resigned as the Member for Bennelong, owing to concerns he had British citizenship by descent through his father. As Barnaby Joyce has also been ousted pending a 2 December by-election in New England, the Coalition now has 74 of the 148 occupied lower house seats, not quite a majority. Since the Speaker cannot vote...

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  1. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  2. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  3. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  4. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  5. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  6. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis
  7. Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
  8. Flowers, remembrance and the art of war
  9. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  10. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  11. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  12. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  13. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  14. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
  15. Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?
  16. Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test
  17. Those noisy crested pigeons use their unique feathers to sound an alarm
  18. Can 'brown fat' really help with weight loss?
  19. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  20. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  21. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  22. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  23. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
  24. Could we nationalise the superannuation system even if we wanted to?
  25. The ACCC investigation into the NBN will be useful. But it's too little, too late
  26. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
  27. Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  28. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  29. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  30. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  31. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  32. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
  33. As we remember the Russian revolution, The Death of Stalin reminds us of its brutal apogee
  34. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
  35. Simplistic advice for teachers on how to teach won't work
  36. What causes SIDS? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  37. Movies and TV choose to tell us different stories about the cities of today
  38. Dems easily win Virginia and New Jersey governors. Left gains control of Tas upper house
  39. Turnbull and Shorten haggle over detail of citizenship disclosure system
  40. Australia might water down illegal logging laws – here's why it's a bad idea
  41. How the Paradise Papers reveal the tension between rock stars and the tax man
  42. Health Check: which sports supplements actually work?
  43. From selfie to infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s amazing technicoloured dreamscape
  44. It's time for a royal commission into banking regulation
  45. Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run
  46. You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but 'surveillance apathy' is also a problem
  47. Three strategies to fight the tax avoidance revealed by the Paradise Papers
  48. Infections, complications and safety breaches: why patients need better data on how hospitals compare
  49. I've always wondered: do nuclear tests affect tectonic plates and cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions?
  50. Australians born overseas prefer the online world for their news

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