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With more than 200 visitors over two days, the 2019 GES Program Summit was a huge success! This year's theme, Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of Artificial Intelligence, engaged the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ community in important conversations about the impacts of Artificial Intelligence, such as automation of jobs, corporate ownership, biases of algorithms and privacy concerns.  

Students contributed toward the development of meaningful responses to these timely global issues with Interactive Exhibitions and Project Presentations.Ìý

°¿³Ü°ùÌýProgram DirectorÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýCourse Instructors worked together to host a Roundtable discussion and two Keynote speeches by this year's Jarislowsky Fellows, Mimi OnuohaÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýDavid Jones.Ìý

A big thank you to our Guest Speakers, the 2019 Jarislowsky Fellows, Instructors and Students for your hard work in making the GES Program Summit a success!

Read the report:  "The Dichotomies of AI: Thoughts from the Global Engagement Summit on the Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of AI ²ú²âÌý, PhD Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs

Summit Opening Remarks and Roundtable 

Doug Peers, Dean of Arts, UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ 

John Ravenhill, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs

Ian Milligan and Marcel O'Gorman, GES Program Instructors

Roundtable Speakers: Mimi Onuoha, Diane Reynolds, Branka Marijan, and David Jones
Moderator: Sarah McKenzie 

Keynote: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

David Jones, 2019 Jarislowsky Fellow

Introduction: Jasmin Habib, GES Program Director 

Keynote: What is Missing is Still There 

Mimi Onuoha, 2019 Jarislowsky Fellow

Introduction: Jasmin Habib, GES Program Director 

Introduction of Student Presentations

Professor Ian Milligan and Professor Marcel O'Gorman 

Guilt, Machines, and Confession: Trust in the Digital Age

Arturo Salek, Ekaterina Durmanova, Qianshu Wang, and Thomas Storwick

AI, will you work?

Aidan Power, Joshua Kwok, Keira Chadwick, Kristoff Malejczuk, Pat Duong, and Vanessa Krause 

Mood: An Exploration of Emotion Detection Algorithms

Maria Cheng, Clair Hu, Steven Kong, Jaxon Lin, Kienna Shaw, and Kelly Zheng

Explaining Bias with Music

Stephanie Rempel, Andrew Welsh, Dina Amer, Jonathan Smith

AI: A People’s Perspective

Sydney Workman, Katherine Sebben, Viola Wang, Shuo Feng, and Rachel Hickey 

Bias in the Black Box

Kamilah Ebrahim and Nicholas Johnston

ArtIfact: an overview of AI policy

Jenevieve Ayuste, Zameer Bharwani, Brooklyn Lester, Christine Wright, and Austin Tripp

Project Matthias

Joe Giuffre, Ayodeji Ige, Pia Medina, Claire Quong, Kuil Schoneveld, and Thomas Stroyan

Closing Remarks for Student Presentations

Jarislowsky Fellows Mimi Onuoha and David Jones, Professors Ian Milligan and Marcel O'Gorman, and 2019 GES Program Class