Tracey Spicer
Global Keynote Speaker
I'm a global keynote speaker, emcee, facilitator, media/presentation trainer, author, documentary host, and multiple Walkley Award winning journalist who's interested in artificial intelligence, social justice and telling stories.
It's why I became a journalist and national news anchor more than three decades ago. During that time, I've hosted shows for ABC TV, Network Ten, and Sky News, as well as 2UE and ABC Radio.
In 2023, Simon & Schuster published my latest book, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Man-Made/Tracey-Spicer/9781761106378
It details the pros and perils of artificial intelligence. Man-Made was longlisted for a prestigious Walkley Award, and won the Social Responsibility category in the Australian Business Book Awards.
It's always important to give back. Some of the highlights of my career have been writing, producing and presenting documentaries in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. I'm an Ambassador for ActionAid, Your Side, the Ethnic Business Awards, Emerge Australia, the Australian POTS Foundation and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.
Career
- Now Global Keynote Speaker
- 2007–2015 Reporter & Presenter · Sky News Australia
- Until 2005 News Presenter · Network Ten
- Earlier TV & Radio Anchor · ABC
Sources: traceyspicer.com.au
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of The Bias Built Into AI, And Why It Should Scare You you want.
- 1:10 Tracey’s TEDx “The lady stripped bare” moment and why it still matters
- 4:45 Beauty standards, AI filters, and why expectations on young women have intensified
- 8:20 Man-Made and the epiphany that sparked Tracey’s AI obsession
- 11:10 The AI arms race, speed, and why we are in the “seatbelt era” of tech
- 14:30 Digital natives vs critical thinking: the hallucination blind spot
- 16:45 Tracey’s AI stack: why Claude is her daily driver
- 19:05 Humanoid home robots: convenience vs surveillance
- 21:55 Strength vs security: what actually scares Tracey about robots
- 24:35 Sex robots and the consent problem manufacturers do not talk about
- 28:10 Algorithms as “opinions in code” and how radicalisation happens
Connections
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