Future Fellowships reflect the Government’s commitment to excellence in research by supporting high quality research in areas of national and international benefit.

ADM+S researchers Michael Richardson (UNSW) and Jake Goldenfein (University of Melbourne) were among those awarded for projects that respond to the pursuit of understanding emerging social and technological challenges Australia faces.

Dr Jake Goldenfein

This project aims to investigate the ways that AI turns data into money. AI training datasets are extremely valuable, but how they are commodified and transacted in markets, and who gets to benefit from the value they produce are poorly understood. That lack of insight makes it impossible to regulate dataset markets for Australian economic interests. Through empirical and conceptual research, this project expects to produce knowledge about the rules and commercial practices shaping the AI data economy and will propose new data governance principles for datasets. The benefit will be to enable regulation of AI training dataset markets in service of Australian creatives and data workers, and ensure a resilient and sovereign technology sector

Associate Professor Michael Richardson

This project aims to investigate how digital twins—dynamic computer models linking simulations with real-world systems—are transforming military knowledge by integrating and coordinating data collection, simulation, and prediction.