Moving beyond the fear of AI stealing our jobs, how do we best work with AI? In this episode, we explore whether AI tools are making us more or less productive and hear what employers are looking for in this age of AI. Plus, we dive into real-life examples of how AI is impacting two completely different jobs: firefighters and graphic designers. Join us as we navigate the evolving landscape of AI in the workplace.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features bushfire system specialist with the Australasian Fire And Emergency Services Authorities Council Chantelle O’Brien, Principal Applied Scientist at Canva Bhautik Joshi, and Claire Naughtin, Digital Futures Team Leader at CSIRO’s Data61.

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Explore how AI is changing family life. Jon Whittle dives into how AI is being used for everything from deciphering baby cries to personalising bedtime stories. But with this new technology comes new challenges like data privacy, mental health and the importance of human connection in a digital age.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features Ubenwa Founder and CEO Charles Onu, digital child development expert in Professor Tama Leaver from Curtin University, Dr Fae Heaselgrave, program director and lecturer at the University of South Australia, and Dr Sarah Bentley, CSIRO Research Scientist applying social psychology to AI.

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Discover how AI is reshaping dating and relationships. From chatbot partners to digital replicas and dating apps, AI is revolutionising how we connect. As we spend more of our lives online, we explore whether AI could be the surprising solution to improving our communication and helping us find love in the real world.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features Dr Leah Henrickson, author and Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Stefanie Duguay, Associate Professor at Concordia University in Canada, and Professor S. Shyam Sundar and Assistant Professor Saeed Abdullah from Pennsylvania State University. 

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Can AI help us cheat death? Our final episode in this series explores AI at the end of our lives and beyond. We delve into how AI impacts aging, forensic science and criminal investigations, death rituals and our digital afterlives. AI’s growing influence is fundamentally changing how we view life and death.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode was recorded live at SXSW in Sydney and features principal scientist at CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre Dr Dana Bradford, former crime scene investigator and Manager of Technology, Strategy and Data with the Australian Federal Police Ben Lamont, Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales June Kim and author and associate professor of philosophy at Deakin University Patrick Stokes. 

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Jon Whittle kicks off our season, exploring how AI is transforming the miracle of life. We meet Briony who shares her firsthand experience with AI-assisted embryo selection during IVF. We crack the code on how artificial intelligence is used in fertility treatments and find out how it’s helping predict the well-being of premature

babies.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features IVF patient Briony, fertility specialist Associate Professor Peter Illingworth and Dr Jessica Bugeja postdoctoral fellow in CSIRO's Australian e-Health Research Centre.

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Struggling and overwhelmed teachers. Bored and disengaged students. AI is shaking things up in the classroom. Will AI replace teachers or help them manage their increasing workloads? Will students use AI to cheat, or do they need to learn to use them responsibly? Join Jon Whittle as he explores real-life applications of AI in education.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features high school teacher and founder and CEO of MyTeacherAide Paul Matthews, special education expert Belinda Dean, and Dragan Gašević, professor of learning analytics at Monash University.

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How would the discovery of life on a nearby planet change our understanding of life on Earth? AI is playing a pivotal role in space exploration, from analysing sound waves within stars to mapping galaxies, and helping space explorers land rovers autonomously on nearby planets. In the final episode of Everyday AI, we’re looking up and out to the stars with astrophysicists, astronomers and space engineers. 

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features Astrophysicist Kirsten Banks, Engineer and Researcher at NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dr Raymond Francis, and Research Astronomer Dr Ivy Wong from CSIRO. 

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Since the origin of data analytics in baseball, artificial intelligence now features in almost every sport. We see it in the precision Hawk-Eye technology that assists umpires with line calls, the performance and strategy analytics used in athlete training, and even helping watching sports become more accessible for vision-impaired audiences. In this episode, we hear from experts and athletes about how AI is changing sports, and touch on the importance of regulating data as AI increasingly becomes part of our everyday lives.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features blind tennis player Courtney Lewis, Tennis Australia’s Machar Reid, Stuart Morgan from the Australian Institute of Sport, and AI expert Toby Walsh. 

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This episode takes us from AI identifying birds in the bush and fish in the sea to helping locate destructive Crown-of-thorns starfish in the Great Barrier Reef. We’ll hear a number of examples of how, when combined with the work of scientific researchers and everyday citizen scientists, AI can be used as a tool to assist in animal population monitoring and rehabilitating ecosystems.

Everyday AI is a CSIRO podcast. This episode features Jessie Barry from Cornell University’s Macaulay Library and Merlin Bird ID. We also hear from ichthyologist Mark McGrouther from the Australian Museum and Australasian Fishes project on iNaturalist, and Google’s Megha Malpani who was part of the team behind a computer-vision project to assist in monitoring Crown-of-thorns starfish.

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