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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...

Sep 17, 2020
3 min

That's a wrap: Thanking my community and planning next steps

I'm thrilled to say - I am DONE! I handed in my final research paper this week and now I await graduation. I have been fortunate to have...

Sep 15, 2020
2 min

Conferences and pumpkin-spice lattes

It's definitely fall. The air is cooler, the leaves are turning shades of red, pumpkin-spice lattes are back and it's conference season....

Aug 14, 2020
4 min

Healthcare data and the tragedy of the anti-commons

Recently, my city passed a bylaw that makes mask wearing mandatory in all indoor spaces. I'm in Canada where "to mask or not to mask"...

Jul 23, 2020
4 min

Scaling Healthcare to enable an AI4Health Future

I submitted my draft Findings and Discussions chapter this weekend! I’m now on a rare break from my research project as I await some...

Jul 3, 2020
2 min

Colour Coding (aka hanging out in my basement coding data)

Regular blog readers will know I’ve been procrastinating just a bit on really digging into my data coding process. Why? Coding...

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