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- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
Metrics and Meritocracy
“Fully many a flower is born to blush unseen” Thomas Gray Metrics provide tangible proof of performance while merit provides a moral...
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
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 16, 2022
- 5 min
Office Hours: Here’s what startups want to know about AI ethics
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, 2022
- 3 min
Myths & Reality: AI and the Law Part 1
The Digital Law Innovation Society is a student-led group at the University of Alberta that plays at the intersection of technology and...
- Mar 1, 2022
- 13 min
Responsible Innovation: Would you let an algorithm shortlist you for the job?
Online personality assessment tests are increasingly being used in the recruitment process by a wide range of organizations. These...
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Can we solve big problems on digital post-it notes?
Marshall McLuhan famously said the medium is the message. This quote suggests that we need to pay attention to communication channels -...
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
The algorithmic risks of ordering a cheeseburger
Until recently, the risks of ordering a cheeseburger at your local mom and pop diner might have been thought about mostly in dietary...
- Sep 22, 2021
- 3 min
Robots, the cure for loneliness?
When I talk to people about AI, inevitably we land on the topic of killer robots. This image of The Terminator and other superintelligent...
- Apr 7, 2021
- 3 min
Prediction is the problem, predictability is the solution?
Many of the thorny ethical issues surrounding AI arise when it is used to make predictions about people, particularly predictions that...
- Mar 19, 2021
- 3 min
Whistleblowing, there’s an app for that.
I recently learned that companies can outsource corporate whistleblowing to a piece of software, confirming that there really is an app...
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
Book Review: Privacy in Context
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said “the age of privacy is over”. (Kirkpatrick, 2010) He’s walked back that statement in the ensuing...
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Search algorithms continue to oppress
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 1, 2021
- 3 min
Requerimiento, viruses, vaccines and revolutions: Fresh takes on surveillance capitalism
I'm re-reading Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - the first book selected by the Women in AI Ethics bookclub for...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 5 min
How much of my data belongs to me? The Henrietta Lacks Story
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 2, 2020
- 3 min
Cut and paste culture: The hidden cost of reusing data
Recently, I was on an email thread where a templated email was reused out of context leading to a slightly confusing and funny exchange...