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Tech’s impact on manners
Through a series of events that are not important to this post, I got caught up in the work of feminist scholar and cultural theorist...
Dec 5, 20244 min read


No free lunch with AI
Headlines are crafted to grab attention and that’s exactly what this New York Times article did: "Nevada Asked A.I. Which Students Need...
Oct 22, 20246 min read


Blame it on the tech: Milli Vanilli and reshaping music norms
I was trying to decide whether to write about the newly released CRTC report on the Rogers outage in 2022 or to share some deep insights...
Jul 7, 20247 min read


Thank you for using Generative AI
Manufacturing consent is nothing new. When billions are at stake, it’s simply par for the business course. This applies to all kinds of...
Jun 11, 20243 min read


AI & Workplace Productivity: Who benefits?
Workplace productivity has been a buzzy trend for a long time. There’s no shortage of productivity software and courses, along with an...
May 6, 20244 min read


Revisiting Radiology: AI’s impact in practice
Remember five or six years ago when computer vision was the ‘hot’ focus area for AI investment? Radiology was one of the fields that was...
Mar 10, 20244 min read


Gemini, Bridgerton and Diversity
There’s been a lot of focus this past couple of weeks on Gemini, the latest Google generative AI failure (remember the flubbed launch of...
Feb 29, 20244 min read


Deepfakes & Privacy (F)laws
Last week (January 22-26) was data privacy week in Canada. The theme of this year’s event was “take control of your data”. This week,...
Jan 31, 20243 min read

Using generative AI more responsibly
I've been teaching at MacEwan University in the Arts and Cultural Management program for over a decade. The last few years, project...
Jan 24, 20243 min read


Responsibility, Liability and Consequences: lessons from the Sacklers
It’s the week before Christmas and there is a battle taking place in my city. A court is deciding the fate of hundreds of unhoused...
Dec 20, 20233 min read


In a New York Minute: Rise of ‘AI experts’
I’ve been going to a number of conferences this fall, many focused on generative AI. I’m seeing a worrisome but not surprising trend -...
Nov 23, 20232 min read


AI and the Arts: 5 Steps to a Responsible Generative AI Policy
Alina Constantin / Better Images of AI / Handmade A.I / CC-BY 4.0 Recently, Ethically Aligned AI worked with the Rozsa Foundation, a...
Nov 3, 20238 min read

Below average workers will benefit the most from using GenAI
From the study Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker...
Oct 21, 20234 min read


ChatGPT: Is it for me? New resource for teachers to explore ethical impacts of AI
We're excited to update our AI + U video series aimed at helping youth to understand the ethical impacts of AI systems. The latest video...
Sep 24, 20233 min read


Testing MVE - Minimum Viable Ethics
One of the things we've noticed working in the Responsible AI space is a tendency for very long and complex assessments or tools that are...
Sep 13, 20231 min read


Culture is key to Responsible AI strategy
We’ve likely all heard the saying “culture eats strategy for breakfast” - a quote that is allegedly attributable to management guru Peter...
Sep 7, 20235 min read


Jupyter Notebooks: A tool that shapes the AI tools that shape us
“We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” -Marshall McLuhan/Father John Culkin My work often looks at the technological...
Aug 13, 20235 min read


Formulating Fairness: The ethics of reframing business problems for data science
David Man & Tristan Ferne / Better Images of AI / Trees / CC-BY 4.0 “Establishing the mapping from the client’s domain to a statistical...
Jul 23, 20236 min read


Experiential Ethics: Practical skills for navigating our AI present and future
The Experiential Ethics program at MIT is a collaborative discussion based summer course that allows students to explore BIG social...
Jul 14, 20237 min read


Ask not if jobs will be replaced by AI, ask how AI will change jobs.
“AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.” This phrase is being trotted out in articles and talks about AI or posted as a stand...
May 31, 20235 min read