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Setting the stage for AI in healthcare: CIFAR's AI for Health Townhall
Recently, I participated in CIFAR's AI for Health townhall. The purpose of the meeting was to gather feedback on a draft framework that...
Feb 2, 20204 min read


Your toaster is the weakest link
In a post-Christmas shopping spree, my husband brought home "an amazing deal" - a Ring doorbell bundled with an Amazon Echo. He had no...
Jan 25, 20204 min read


Scenes from a Literature Review: Healthcare and AI
I'm having that moment of guilt when you realize that your last blog was close to two months ago! Time to dust off the cobwebs with an...
Jan 17, 20205 min read


What are the values behind AI systems?
This week I'm getting started on my literature review. I'm trying to craft a list of core values that are part of the DNA of AI systems...
Dec 18, 20193 min read


How am I biased?
Last night I was at a talk on ethics and bias hosted by Women in Big Data. One of the presenters mentioned the Harvard Implicit...
Nov 29, 20191 min read


Becoming an informational person
A month ago, I attended a masterclass with author Candace Savage. It was a primer on historical research and how to use fragments of data...
Nov 25, 20193 min read


The data and processes we don't question
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,...
Nov 12, 20194 min read


In too Deep: Are we missing the bigger picture for AI?
If I were writing an equation to summarize the general state of artificial intelligence today it might look like this: AI = ML = DNN...
Nov 3, 20195 min read


Hiding under a Marcov blanket protecting my attention
I’m procrastinating from my “real work” to write this post. I have exactly a week to get my annotated bibliography assignment done but...
Oct 27, 20193 min read


The Orangetheory of Data Religion
I hate working out. But I dutifully drag myself to the gym a couple times a week. Recently, I’ve been going to Orangetheory Fitness. For...
Oct 23, 20193 min read


My annotated bibliography won't write itself (sigh)
This blog is serving a dual purpose for me. It's both a space to share information I’m discovering and a place to work through the...
Oct 18, 20193 min read


Walking naked through the Googleplex
I can’t take credit for the title of this post but it sums up an issue that we all face - we trade our privacy for convenience. This line...
Oct 16, 20193 min read


Blackface, #MeToo, Alan Turing and super-ethical AI
Ethical behaviour is culturally contextual and constantly evolving. Our not too distant past is filled with discriminatory behaviours and...
Oct 10, 20193 min read


When data knows us better than we know ourselves
A few months ago, I was enticed by a special offer from 23andMe. I'd been on the fence about genetic testing for some time. Like the...
Oct 9, 20193 min read


The ethics surrounding data collection
I’ve been talking with a lot of different people - pretty much anyone who will listen – about where to focus my research. One piece of...
Oct 7, 20192 min read


Where to begin...
Research is not a linear process. It gets messy. Or maybe I should say, MY approach to research has been messy. I'm currently enrolled in...
Oct 3, 20193 min read