The reality is that Australia *has* scientists qualified and well-versed in the best ways to manage our natural resources, but the government (Lib/Lab, it doesn’t matter) is beholden to corporate and agricultural interests and will always, always allow these to override the input from scientists.

One thing I *have* seen a study on is that people will behave more sexually and abusively to chatbots when the bots are presented as women. That seems bad! Not because the chatbots are actually humans, but because the *user* is, and that says something about them www.researchgate.net/publication/...