Our new Board
July 4, 2025
Taking this opportunity to welcome our 2025/2026 Board and to once again thank outgoing Board members for their contribution over the last 12 or so months. For more information visit our website - www.airesearchers.nz Albert Bifet Richard Green Mengjie Zhang Julian Maclaren ...
Tech on the tree tops: How AI can protect forests
June 29, 2025
An international team has trained a Siamese Attention U-Net model on Google Earth imagery to spot forest-cover changes automatically—no massive hand-labelled datasets required. The study finds the planet lost 100 million ha of forest between 2000-2022, and the new pipeline...
Recent Massey University led research tracking 34 New Zealand flocks found 25-35 % of ewes are lost or culled each year—a hit Massey vet Dr Anne Ridler says can be trimmed with smarter decision-making tools. The multi-institution team (Massey, Lincoln University (NZ), The ...
University of Otago researchers Margaret Thorsen and Dist. Prof. Phil Bremer have catalogued the big risks—from climate-driven pathogens to supply-chain shocks—and show how AI can spot contamination, slash waste and steady food production. Their Newsroom NZ analysis argu...
AI and the future of education
June 18, 2025
Our Executive Director spoke to Naomii Seah for this story in School news about the potential for AI in Education. The article unpacks how educators can harness generative AI while ensuring that human connection, critical thinking, and inclusive learning remain at the centre...
University of Canterbury engineers led by our Co-Chair South Island Professor Richard Green are trialling autonomous underwater robots that scan mussel lines in 3-D, use computer vision to size shellfish and flag pests—all without sending divers overboard. Early modelling ...
Mid year workshop planned
May 4, 2025
We have put together another opportunity for researchers and students to come together for in-depth and timely discussion of emerging insights in artificial intelligence.This year we are hosted by the University of Canterbury and will have discussion papers taking center sta...
Generative Reo Māori AI – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
November 12, 2024
On April 10, 2024, AI researchers gathered at the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Conference for a panel discussion around Generative Reo Māori AI. The panel was chaired by Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan (Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whak...
Accountants and Large Language Models
August 7, 2024
Our Executive Director, Jannat Maqbool, was recently interviewed for CPA Australia's In The Black magazine about customising Large Language Models.Read more here....
Getting strategic with national AI
June 20, 2024
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