AI Ethics

Myths & Reality: AI and the Law Part 2

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

Mar 17, 20223 min read

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...

Mar 16, 20225 min read

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

Mar 16, 20223 min read

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

Mar 1, 202213 min read

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

Feb 1, 20223 min read

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

Nov 1, 20214 min read

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

Sep 22, 20213 min read

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

Apr 7, 20213 min read

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

Feb 25, 20213 min read

I had the great pleasure of sharing the virtual stage tonight with Dr. Cheryl Prescod, Executive Director of the Black Creek Community...

Feb 9, 20211 min read

I'm re-reading Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - the first book selected by the Women in AI Ethics bookclub for...

Feb 1, 20213 min read

Reflecting back on 2020, one of the things that fuelled me is great conversations. This past fall, I was incredibly fortunate to speak...

Jan 4, 20213 min read

This is the time of year when I get reflective, taking stock of the last 12 months while looking ahead to the coming year. To say it's...

Dec 15, 20202 min read

How we currently build AI is fundamentally flawed. We need new principles and a new process to build intelligent machines that are able...

Nov 28, 20205 min read

Imagine these two scenarios...you're at work and you've just polished off a latte. You throw the cup in the lunchroom garbage but...

Oct 29, 20205 min read