Anthony Elliott is Bradley Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia.In the King’s Birthday Honours 2023, Professor Elliott was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to education, social science policy and research. In 2024, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Melbourne.Professor Elliott received a BA (Hons.) from University of Melbourne. He then won a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Packer Scholarship to the UK, where he completed a PhD in Social Theory at Cambridge University under the supervision of Lord Anthony Giddens.Professor Elliott is one of the most influential and widely published social theorists in the world, with some 50 books translated in 15 languages. The New Republic has described his research breakthroughs as “thought-provoking and disturbing”. He has secured competitive research funding from, among other agencies, the Australian Research Council, the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Programme, the Toyota Foundation, the Australia-Japan Foundation, and the Japan Foundation.He currently serves as a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and a Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge. He also holds appointments as Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan, and Visiting Full Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland.He is Executive Director of UniSA's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.Professor Elliott was previously Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Head of the Department of Sociology at Flinders University (2006-2012) and Director of the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA (2012-2016). He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.In recent years, he has turned his scholarly focus to artificial intelligence. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a member of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies on AI at the request of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council, and with support from the ARC and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. In 2017, he served as a member of ACOLA’s Artificial Intelligence Scoping Project Committee. His latest books include The Culture of AI (Routledge, 2019), Making Sense of AI (Polity, 2021) and Algorithmic Intimacy (Polity, 2023) and Algorithms of Anxiety (2024).