I recently received a letter from a neighbour asking me to join Nextdoor. Actually, it wasn’t really from a neighbour. It was a form...

Artificial Intelligence is a powerful technology that is shaping our world. Some AI systems can deliver harmful, discriminatory outcomes...

What does it mean to be smart? This is the opening question posed in Cade Metz’s Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google,...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

I recently learned that companies can outsource corporate whistleblowing to a piece of software, confirming that there really is an app...

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said “the age of privacy is over”. (Kirkpatrick, 2010) He’s walked back that statement in the ensuing...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Recently, I was on an email thread where a templated email was reused out of context leading to a slightly confusing and funny exchange...

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