The Digital Law Innovation Society is a student-led group at the University of Alberta that plays at the intersection of technology and...

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...

The Digital Law Innovation Society is a student-led group at the University of Alberta that plays at the intersection of technology and...

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

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

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

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

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

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'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...

Recently, I participated in CIFAR's AI for Health townhall. The purpose of the meeting was to gather feedback on a draft framework that...

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...

If I were writing an equation to summarize the general state of artificial intelligence today it might look like this: AI = ML = DNN...

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...