BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad2162 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240625T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240625T170000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/critic al-tech-talk-9-perspectives-accelerating-ai-adoption SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 9: Perspectives on Accelerating AI Adoption CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nJoin us to explore the impact of the Voluntary Code of Conduct on the\nResponsible Development and Management of Advanced Gen erative AI\nSystems. The code\, introduced by the Ministry of Innovation\, Science\nand Industry\, aims to foster public trust in AI technologies\,\ nintending to accelerate adoption. This engaging panel discussion\nfeaturi ng education leaders\, computer science researchers and industry\nexperts will explore the broader implications of accelerating AI\nadoption beyond economic impacts. Speakers will share insights hopes\nand concerns about the potential societal changes\, ethical\nconsiderations and regulatory ch allenges that come with AI.\n\nAdmission free.  Register at the Critical Media Lab website\n[/arts/about/critical-tech-talk].\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad3f3f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T173000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/survei llance-capitalism-conversation-shoshana-zuboff-and-jim SUMMARY:SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A conversation with Shoshana Zuboff and Ji m\nBalsillie CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nJoin us for an urgent discussion on \"surveillance capitalism\"\, its\nthreat to our information civilization\, and how its t rajectory\nundermines democratic norms and the centuries-long evolution of market\ncapitalism.\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad4a29 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231121T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231121T130000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/how-bu ild-anything-ethically SUMMARY:How to Build Anything Ethically CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThis discussion of ethical decision making when bui lding technologies\nin a ‘Good Way’ includes two examples. First\, I i llustrate how the\nprotocol for building a Lakota sweat lodge can act as a framework for\nbuilding a physical computing device. Next\, I provide an example of\nhow multiple streams of protocol are necessary to build an AI system\nas a confluence of ethics. Some ideas proposed here are not curren tly\npossible\, some are possible if investment is made in the necessary\n research\, and some are possible but only through a radical change in\nthe way technology companies are run and the pyramid of compensation\nfor the exploitation of resources is reversed.\n\nJoin via this Zoom link\n[https ://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/97003693737?pwd=TzkvbjVlS09rdWRXR2RJbWdmTzd3QT09]\, \npasscode 756099.\n \nBIO:\nSuzanne Kite is an award-winning Oglála La kȟóta artist\, composer\,\nand academic. Her scholarship and practice ex plore contemporary\nLakȟóta ontology (the study of beinghood in Lakȟót a)\, artificial\nintelligence\, and contemporary art and performance. She creates\ninterfaces and arranges software systems that engage the whole bo dy\,\nin order to imagine new ethical AI protocols that interrogate past\, \npresent\, and future Lakȟóta  philosophies.\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad536c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230124T180000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230124T180000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/ai-tsu nami-where-will-it-take-us SUMMARY:The AI tsunami – Where will it take us? CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nYou’re invited to Research Talks\, a public event and panel\ndiscussion featuring guest speakers Kesha Bodawala - P & P\ nOptica\, Evan Jones - Stitch Media\, and Sirisha Rambhatla and Will\ nZhao - University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad5daf DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221028T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221028T120000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/misinf ormation-ai-evil-and-good SUMMARY:Misinformation: AI for evil and for good CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nJoin us via zoom\n[https://zoom.us/meeting/registe r/tJcldOCoqzwqG9bFqsDFl_4AqZjwgwe4Wsg0] on\nFriday\, October 28\, 12 pm - 1:30 pm. CARE-AI\n[https://www.care-ai.ca/] welcomes philosopher\, cogni tive scientist\nand author Paul Thagard as he discusses a new theory of information\nand misinformation based on mechanisms of acquisition\, infer ence\,\nmemory and spread.\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad64ea DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211124T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211124T160000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/ai-sol ution-or-it-already-being-overused SUMMARY:Is AI the Solution? Or Is It Already Being Overused? CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nArtificial intelligence is the cutting edge in deci sion-making and\ncomputer science. However\, there is also the sense that AI is nothing\nmore than a buzzword used in almost every facet of our live s right\nnow. Given the current buzz surrounding AI\, it is relevant to as k:\nwhat are the limits of AI? In many instances\, such as with military\n technology\, the availability of artificial intelligence is what made\nthe technology possible in the first place. Can we expect systems to\nachieve decision-making capabilities and performances that are better\nthan human across domains?\n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad6c15 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211108T170000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211108T170000 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/critic al-tech-talk-1-nicole-aschoff-digital-frontier-and-its SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and i ts\nlimits CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCRITICAL TECH TALK 1: NICOLE ASCHOFF – THE DIGIT AL FRONTIER AND ITS\nLIMITS\n\nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 8\, 2021\, 5 PM | THEAT RE OF THE ARTS\, UNIVERSITY OF\nWATERLOO\, IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAMED |  REGISTER\n[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/critical-tech-talk-1-nicole-aschoff -tickets-191803568637] \n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830d3aad73a0 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191125T121500 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191125T121500 URL:/centre-for-society-technology-values/events/ai-and -weaponization-information-darwinai-ceo-sheldon SUMMARY:AI and the Weaponization of Information with DarwinAI CEO Sheldon\n Fernandez CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\n\"Join Darwin AI CEO Sheldon Fernandez (BASc 2001\, Computer\nEngineering) for this timely talk on misinformation in the digi tal\nage. Pizza lunch will be provided at 12:15pm\, with the talk followin g\nat 12:30pm. All students\, alumni\, staff and faculty are welcome to\nr egister for this free event using the registration link below.\"\n\nMore i nformation is available at the event webpage\n[/events /events/ai-and-weaponization-information-darwinai-ceo-sheldon]. \n DTSTAMP:20250523T195938Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR