artificial intelligence

Critical Tech Talk 9: Perspectives on Accelerating AI Adoption

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:56:05 +0000

Critical Tech Talk 9: Perspectives on Accelerating AI Adoption Cameron Shelley Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:56

Perspectives on accelerating AI adoption

Join us to explore the impact of the Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems. The code, introduced by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry, aims to foster public trust in AI technologies, intending to accelerate adoption. This engaging panel discussion featuring education leaders, computer science researchers and industry experts will explore the broader implications of accelerating AI adoption beyond economic impacts. Speakers will share insights hopes and concerns about the potential societal changes, ethical considerations and regulatory challenges that come with AI.

Admission free. Register at the Critical Media Lab website.

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A conversation with Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Balsillie

Cameron Shelley — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:44:20 +0000

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A conversation with Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Balsillie Cameron Shelley Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:44

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A conversation with Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Balsillie

The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) cordially invite you to a discussion on surveillance capitalism, featuring Shoshana Zuboff (professor emerita, Harvard Business School, and author) and Jim Balsillie (Canadian business leader and philanthropist).

The discussion will offer perspectives on the concept of surveillance capitalism and its implications for an information civilization. The conversation will also explore issues concerning governance and public policy challenges in a marketplace of intangibles, where power is based on who controls and owns data and intellectual property. Offering both research and practitioner perspectives, the speakers will highlight the ways in which surveillance capitalism challenges democratic norms and departs in key ways from the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism.

How to Build Anything Ethically

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:38:14 +0000

How to Build Anything Ethically Cameron Shelley Fri, 11/17/2023 - 10:38

How to build anything ethically

This discussion of ethical decision making when building technologies in a ‘Good Way’ includes two examples. First, I illustrate how the protocol for building a Lakota sweat lodge can act as a framework for building a physical computing device. Next, I provide an example of how multiple streams of protocol are necessary to build an AI system as a confluence of ethics. Some ideas proposed here are not currently possible, some are possible if investment is made in the necessary research, and some are possible but only through a radical change in the way technology companies are run and the pyramid of compensation for the exploitation of resources is reversed.

Join via this Zoom link, passcode 756099.

BIO:
Suzanne Kite is an award-winning Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and academic. Her scholarship and practice explore contemporary Lakȟóta ontology (the study of beinghood in Lakȟóta), artificial intelligence, and contemporary art and performance. She creates interfaces and arranges software systems that engage the whole body, in order to imagine new ethical AI protocols that interrogate past, present, and future Lakȟóta philosophies.

The AI tsunami – Where will it take us?

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:55:33 +0000

The AI tsunami – Where will it take us? Cameron Shelley Fri, 01/13/2023 - 10:55

You’re invited to Research Talks, a public event and panel discussion featuring guest speakers Kesha Bodawala - P & P Optica, Evan Jones - Stitch Media, and Sirisha Rambhatla and Will Zhao - University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of machines and software that exhibit intelligence, is transforming every aspect of society, from financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and more. AI is dependent on data, that is, AI uses data to make predictions so humans can make data-driven decisions. With the explosion of data over the past two decades, there is an AI tsunami on our threshold. So, we are left with the question, “Where will AI take us?”

Misinformation: AI for evil and for good

Cameron Shelley — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:15:18 +0000

Misinformation: AI for evil and for good Cameron Shelley Tue, 10/11/2022 - 11:15

Join us via zoom on Friday, October 28, 12 pm - 1:30 pm. CARE-AI welcomes philosopher, cognitive scientist and author Paul Thagard as he discusses a new theory of information and misinformation based on mechanisms of acquisition, inference, memory and spread.

Is AI the Solution? Or Is It Already Being Overused?

Cameron Shelley — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:24:24 +0000

Is AI the Solution? Or Is It Already Being Overused? Cameron Shelley Mon, 11/22/2021 - 09:24

Artificial intelligence is the cutting edge in decision-making and computer science. However, there is also the sense that AI is nothing more than a buzzword used in almost every facet of our lives right now. Given the current buzz surrounding AI, it is relevant to ask: what are the limits of AI? In many instances, such as with military technology, the availability of artificial intelligence is what made the technology possible in the first place. Can we expect systems to achieve decision-making capabilities and performances that are better than human across domains? What are the trade-offs of acquiring such capabilities? This session wraps up the webinar series and asks the panelists to reflect on our AI centric future. Is it the panacea it has been described to be? The answer is likely not. However, the panelists can parse out the unrealistic expectations we have about artificial intelligence and give us a clearer view of what the future actually entails.

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:11:34 +0000

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits Cameron Shelley Fri, 10/29/2021 - 10:11

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits

Monday, November 8, 2021, 5 PM | Theatre of the Arts, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, in-person and livestreamed | REGISTER

Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?

About the speaker

Nicole Aschoff is an editor, writer and public sociologist focused on technology, labour, politics, feminism, the economy, and the environment. Her recent book is The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age. She examines the complex ways that people, institutions, and big systems, intersect to forge the society we live in. Aschoff holds a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and currently works as a senior editor with Verso Books. Read more: nicoleaschoff.com

AI and the Weaponization of Information with DarwinAI CEO Sheldon Fernandez

Cameron Shelley — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:55:51 +0000

AI and the Weaponization of Information with DarwinAI CEO Sheldon Fernandez Cameron Shelley Wed, 10/30/2019 - 12:55

"Join Darwin AI CEO Sheldon Fernandez (BASc 2001, Computer Engineering) for this timely talk on misinformation in the digital age. Pizza lunch will be provided at 12:15pm, with the talk following at 12:30pm. All students, alumni, staff and faculty are welcome to register for this free event using the registration link below."

More information is available at the event webpage.