“Fully many a flower is born to blush unseen” Thomas Gray Metrics provide tangible proof of performance while merit provides a moral...

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...

Online personality assessment tests are increasingly being used in the recruitment process by a wide range of organizations. These...

Marshall McLuhan famously said the medium is the message. This quote suggests that we need to pay attention to communication channels -...

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...

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

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

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...

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....

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"...

I submitted my draft Findings and Discussions chapter this weekend! I’m now on a rare break from my research project as I await some...

Regular blog readers will know I’ve been procrastinating just a bit on really digging into my data coding process. Why? Coding...