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EulerESG: Automating ESG Disclosure Analysis with LLMs
Ding, Yi, Tang, Xushuo, Yang, Zhengyi, Zhang, Wenqian, Wu, Simin, Huang, Yuxin, Lan, Lingjing, Li, Weiyuan, Chen, Yin, Ju, Mingchen, Yang, Wenke, Hoang, Thong, Klymenko, Mykhailo, Zu, Xiwei, Zhang, Wenjie
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reports have become central to how companies communicate climate risk, social impact, and governance practices, yet they are still published primarily as long, heterogeneous PDF documents. This makes it difficult to systematically answer seemingly simple questions. Existing tools either rely on brittle rule-based extraction or treat ESG reports as generic text, without explicitly modelling the underlying reporting standards. We present \textbf{EulerESG}, an LLM-powered system for automating ESG disclosure analysis with explicit awareness of ESG frameworks. EulerESG combines (i) dual-channel retrieval and LLM-driven disclosure analysis over ESG reports, and (ii) an interactive dashboard and chatbot for exploration, benchmarking, and explanation. Using four globally recognised companies and twelve SASB sub-industries, we show that EulerESG can automatically populate standard-aligned metric tables with high fidelity (up to 0.95 average accuracy) while remaining practical in end-to-end runtime, and we compare several recent LLM models in this setting. The full implementation, together with a demonstration video, is publicly available at https://github.com/UNSW-database/EulerESG.
AuditNet: A Conversational AI-based Security Assistant [DEMO]
Deldari, Shohreh, Goudarzi, Mohammad, Joshi, Aditya, Shaghaghi, Arash, Finn, Simon, Salim, Flora D., Jha, Sanjay
In the age of information overload, professionals across various fields face the challenge of navigating vast amounts of documentation and ever-evolving standards. Ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, and contractual obligations is a critical yet complex task across various professional fields. We propose a versatile conversational AI assistant framework designed to facilitate compliance checking on the go, in diverse domains, including but not limited to network infrastructure, legal contracts, educational standards, environmental regulations, and government policies. By leveraging retrieval-augmented generation using large language models, our framework automates the review, indexing, and retrieval of relevant, context-aware information, streamlining the process of verifying adherence to established guidelines and requirements. This AI assistant not only reduces the manual effort involved in compliance checks but also enhances accuracy and efficiency, supporting professionals in maintaining high standards of practice and ensuring regulatory compliance in their respective fields. We propose and demonstrate AuditNet, the first conversational AI security assistant designed to assist IoT network security experts by providing instant access to security standards, policies, and regulations.
Smart Textile-Driven Soft Spine Exosuit for Lifting Tasks in Industrial Applications
Zhu, Kefan, Sharma, Bibhu, Phan, Phuoc Thien, Davies, James, Thai, Mai Thanh, Hoang, Trung Thien, Nguyen, Chi Cong, Ji, Adrienne, Nicotra, Emanuele, Lovell, Nigel H., Do, Thanh Nho
Work related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are often caused by repetitive lifting, making them a significant concern in occupational health. Although wearable assist devices have become the norm for mitigating the risk of back pain, most spinal assist devices still possess a partially rigid structure that impacts the user comfort and flexibility. This paper addresses this issue by presenting a smart textile actuated spine assistance robotic exosuit (SARE), which can conform to the back seamlessly without impeding the user movement and is incredibly lightweight. The SARE can assist the human erector spinae to complete any action with virtually infinite degrees of freedom. To detect the strain on the spine and to control the smart textile automatically, a soft knitting sensor which utilizes fluid pressure as sensing element is used. The new device is validated experimentally with human subjects where it reduces peak electromyography (EMG) signals of lumbar erector spinae by around 32 percent in loaded and around 22 percent in unloaded conditions. Moreover, the integrated EMG decreased by around 24.2 percent under loaded condition and around 23.6 percent under unloaded condition. In summary, the artificial muscle wearable device represents an anatomical solution to reduce the risk of muscle strain, metabolic energy cost and back pain associated with repetitive lifting tasks.
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UNSW is also taking a leading role in pushing forward the codification of the use of AI in the law9 and in understanding and highlighting the ethical boundaries where AI techniques can and should really be used for the benefit of society. All up, UNSW has over 300 researchers involved in pushing forward the power of AI related techniques for the good of society. These researchers participate in over a dozen research centres, labs and facilities across all faculties at UNSW, including at ADFA@UNSW Canberra providing Australia's defence forces with world leading teaching and research. This unique capability has developed organically over time but currently lacks a cohesive means to bring them all together. UNSW.ai is designed to harness the power of this capability to accelerate our development of new and more powerful AI techniques while ensuring their integrity, security and appropriate use.
Artificial intelligence is part of everyday lives – and its power is a double-edged sword
In the coming decade, I expect that AI will play an increasingly prominent role in the lives of people everywhere. AI-infused services will become more common, and AI will become increasingly embedded in the daily lives of people across the world. I believe that this will bring with it great economic and societal benefits, but that it will also require us to address the many challenges to ensure that the benefits are broadly shared and that people are not marginalised by these new technologies. A key insight of AI research is that it is easier to build things than to understand why they work. However, defining what success looks like for an AI application is not straightforward.