Value proposition

We are drawing on the history of cybernetics and reimagining it for our 21st century challenges.

ANU School of Cybernetics seeks to establish cybernetics as an important tool for navigating major societal transformations, through capability building, policy development and safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new systems.

As people invent, commercialise and operationalise new technologies, we need new skills to manage them. Cybernetics offers a way of transcending boundaries, of thinking in systems and ensuring that humans, technology and the physical environment are in the frame. It is a way to imagine humans steering technical systems safely through the world.

At ANU School of Cybernetics we are building capability around this. Our programs blend education, research and engagement to support students, collaborators and publics to tackle the challenges posed by technology at scale.