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Sep 22, 20213 min read

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...

Aug 20, 20212 min read

Summer Sessions

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...

May 24, 20214 min read

AI and EDI: reflections on making BlackTalk - a new podcast

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...

Apr 7, 20213 min read

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...

Apr 4, 20211 min read

Entrepreneur Diary Series: Reflections on Start Up Life

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...

Mar 19, 20213 min read

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, 20215 min read

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, 20213 min read

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 9, 20211 min read

Hate Over Health: Understanding racial discrimination in the age of COVID-19

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

Feb 1, 20213 min read

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...

Jan 4, 20213 min read

AI4Society Dialogues: A new podcast

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

Dec 15, 20202 min read

WAIE and the power of community

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...

Nov 28, 20205 min read

Book Review: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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

Oct 29, 20205 min read

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, 20203 min read

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 25, 20204 min read

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...

Sep 17, 20203 min read

Entrepreneur Diary Series: Taking the leap

Entrepreneurship is something we romanticize but the reality is a lot of hard work and outcomes that are far from certain. I've had some...

Sep 17, 20203 min read

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, 20202 min read

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, 20204 min read

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"...

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