Healthcare | Ethically Aligned AI

Sep 22, 20213 min read

Robots, the cure for loneliness?

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

Apr 7, 20213 min read

Prediction is the problem, predictability is the solution?

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

Feb 9, 20211 min read

Hate Over Health: Understanding racial discrimination in the age of COVID-19

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

Oct 29, 20205 min read

How much of my data belongs to me? The Henrietta Lacks Story

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...

Sep 17, 20203 min read

That's a wrap: Thanking my community and planning next steps

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...

Sep 15, 20202 min read

Conferences and pumpkin-spice lattes

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....

Aug 14, 20204 min read

Healthcare data and the tragedy of the anti-commons

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"...

Jul 23, 20204 min read

Scaling Healthcare to enable an AI4Health Future

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...

May 23, 20204 min read

Research update: collecting data, prepping for a presentation and "COVID-izing" my work

Generally when things are quiet on the blog, it means I'm really busy with my research. That's certainly been the case this past month....

May 4, 20203 min read

Counting COVID: The politics of data collection and reporting

There’s something about seeing the hard, cold numbers globally tracking the coronavirus that’s turned average people into armchair...

Apr 17, 20205 min read

“Glassholes” and toilet paper: Consumer attitudes about AI

Back in 2013, Google launched Google Glass. It was hailed at that time as a technology set to revolutionize how we interact with the...

Feb 7, 20204 min read

Mend it or end it, who decides? Day One of the AI, Ethics and Society Conference

It's been a super full day exploring the landscape surrounding the many societal questions relating to artificial intelligence and...

Feb 2, 20204 min read

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...

Jan 17, 20205 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...