2024 Annual Report released: National research impacts and $14.4m in research investment
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Date 19 August 2025
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) has released its 2024 Annual Report, showcasing major contributions to responsible, ethical, and inclusive approaches to automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence (AI).
Now at the midpoint of its seven-year life, the Centre has secured $14.4 million in new investment, launched nine new Signature Projects, and delivered research shaping national policy, industry practice, and public debate.
“The Centre has delivered groundbreaking work, including the first mapping of automation across the Australian public sector, the first comprehensive study of digital inclusion in First Nations communities, and the development of new tools and methods for observing and responding to the interactions between Australians and the digital platforms they use every day,” said Deena Shiff, Chair of the ADM+S International Advisory Board.
The year saw the launch of nine ambitious new projects bringing together social and technical disciplines to address critical current issues, including the challenges of generative AI and authenticity, sustainability, and cultural diversity.
“Together, these projects are setting a new agenda for the second half of the Centre’s life,” said Distinguished Prof Julian Thomas, Director of ADM+S.
“They respond to dramatic recent developments, notably the emergence of popular generative AI applications, which have sparked intense debate in areas from education to work and creative practice.”
The Centre secured $14.4 million in new investment to expand its research capacity, including:
- The first comprehensive national study of Indigenous digital inclusion, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.
- The Australian Internet Observatory, a new national research facility supported by the Australian Research Data Commons and the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme. The Observatory will enable us to refine the Centre’s unique tools and make them widely available to researchers everywhere; we expect it to be a lasting legacy of the Centre’s work.
ADM+S researchers continue to be guided by our shared commitment to responsible, ethical and inclusive automated systems, with the dramatic emergence and take-up of AI technologies underlining the importance of our approach.
View the 2024 ADM+S Annual Report
