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Former Minister for Human Services Stuart Robert during hearings for the robodebt royal commission. Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme/AAP

‘The culmination of years of suffering’: what can we expect from the robodebt royal commission’s final report?

Beware those who offer ‘cultural’ fixes and non-binding reassurances. The government shouldn’t fall back on the very institutions that never fully acted until a royal commission.
Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen, were something to occur in a different way. For instance, we can ask what the world would be like had the internet never been developed. Shutterstock

Philosophers have studied ‘counterfactuals’ for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?

AI models are increasingly being used to make important decision about people’s lives – just take Robodebt. Yet the complexity of these systems means we hardly understand them.

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