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Responsible AI

Human accountability, governance, safety boundaries, community impact, responsible data use and evidence-backed claims.

Programmes in this area

  • Status: Exploring
    Auslan and Multimodal Accessibility

    Early-stage, community-informed exploration of camera-based Auslan recognition as multimodal representation — not gesture classification, not interpreter replacement.

  • Status: Active research
    Governed Agent Systems

    A single controlled execution boundary for AI agents, with human approval for irreversible actions and policy-based access to tools.

  • Status: Active research
    Evidence and Workstate

    Store-untrusting, fail-closed design where verdicts are captured as evidence, contracts are pinned, and work state is replayable and tamper-evident.

  • Status: Active research
    Privacy-Preserving AI Pipelines

    Sensitive-data detection, redaction and transformation with data-residency controls and residual-risk evaluation before controlled model access.

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