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GenAI is a Bazooka at a Knife Fight
In early September, Ontario Premier Doug Ford ( attempted ) to pour out a whole bottle of Crown Royal  as a publicity stunt protest of an upcoming plant closure that would impact jobs. It had the intended effect of garnering media attention. It also got me thinking about the ways in which we are wasteful and how this idea of wastefulness is entangled with Generative AI. There’s a growing concern about the environmental impacts of AI. We’re hearing stories about the call for m
Oct 254 min read


From City Centre to Data Centre - a bold proposal*
Edmonton is known for hockey, cold winters and a really big mall . One might argue that we have the really big mall - which was once the...
Aug 293 min read


Book Review: A World Without Work
Will AI take your job? Daniel Susskind says, eventually, yes, but he also has some ideas on how to slow down the process and to move...
Jul 297 min read


Frankly Fake: The ethics of keeping it 'not real'
The other week, Google launched Veo 3 , its last video generation tools. The realistic quality of the tools spawned headlines like this...
Jun 134 min read


AI-mageddon: 2030 got cancelled
Are we living in the end times? This is a question that humans continue to ask themselves at major inflection points throughout history....
May 185 min read
