In recent years, we have seen the rapid growth of technology and at its centre, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its innovative and alarming implementation in society. On September 5th 2023, Monash DeepNeuron’s Law and Ethics Committee collaborated with Monash University and AiLECS lab, who are at the forefront of developing AI so that it can assist law enforcement and be utilised to promote community safety, in the industry event, Protecting the Future: Combatting the Online Surge of Child Exploitation.

Although Australia has begun to settle into its ‘post COVID-19 era’, levels of psychological distress and life satisfaction amongst Australians are still yet to recover to what they were pre-pandemic. Some have referred to this as the ‘shadow mental health pandemic’.