Regulation

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ethics or regulation? We need both.

I had a chance to catch two amazing presentation in the past two days - cyber-security expert Bruce Schneier and distinguished computer...

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"...

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...