It’s easier to sell a dream than it is reality. This headline kicks off an in depth piece in Canadian Business by Edmonton-based writer...

“Fully many a flower is born to blush unseen” Thomas Gray Metrics provide tangible proof of performance while merit provides a moral...

The Digital Law Innovation Society is a student-led group at the University of Alberta that plays at the intersection of technology and...

What's on the mind of startups when it comes to AI ethics? I’ve been hosting office hours with Startup Edmonton. These are confidential...

The Digital Law Innovation Society is a student-led group at the University of Alberta that plays at the intersection of technology and...

Online personality assessment tests are increasingly being used in the recruitment process by a wide range of organizations. These...

If it were up to an algorithm, I’m sure I would have never met my husband. I missed (escaped!) the whole online dating and dating app...

Marshall McLuhan famously said the medium is the message. This quote suggests that we need to pay attention to communication channels -...

I recently received a letter from a neighbour asking me to join Nextdoor. Actually, it wasn’t really from a neighbour. It was a form...

Artificial Intelligence is a powerful technology that is shaping our world. Some AI systems can deliver harmful, discriminatory outcomes...

What does it mean to be smart? This is the opening question posed in Cade Metz’s Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google,...

Until recently, the risks of ordering a cheeseburger at your local mom and pop diner might have been thought about mostly in dietary...

When I talk to people about AI, inevitably we land on the topic of killer robots. This image of The Terminator and other superintelligent...

The city is crowded, my friends are away And I'm on my own It's too hot to handle, so I got to get up and go - Cruel Summer, Bananarama...

Last week Google announced a new dermatology app the doesn’t work on darker skinned people. A few days earlier, 60 Minutes did a piece on...

Many of the thorny ethical issues surrounding AI arise when it is used to make predictions about people, particularly predictions that...

It's been awhile since I've posted about entrepreneurial life. I've been so busy working in my startup that I haven't had the time to...

I recently learned that companies can outsource corporate whistleblowing to a piece of software, confirming that there really is an app...

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said “the age of privacy is over”. (Kirkpatrick, 2010) He’s walked back that statement in the ensuing...

In February 2019, I gathered in a jam packed hotel ballroom in downtown Edmonton to hear Dr. Safiya Noble talk about her book Algorithms...