News

The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication  of The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future, written by Faculty Member Dr. Kelly Bronson, and published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry into political actors' interactions with artificial intelligence and automated systems.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry on human-centric cybersecurity frameworks for responsible AI.

The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce that the short film #tresdancing won the “Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural” award in the “Long Short” category at the Alternative Film Festival.

The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce the launch of I'm Honoured To Serve, a multidisciplinary project that offers a unique lens through which to critically examine the technology we build, and (re)evaluate its meaning and function in the world.  

The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa and Fellow Dr. B. Courtney Doagoo have contributed to Leaps and Boundaries, a new report by the Council of Canadian Academies that examines a broad range of factors related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in scientific research and discovery in Canada. 

On March 29th 2022, Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa appeared before the Standing Committee on Social Policy of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The Committee was reviewing the government’s proposed Bill 88, An Act to enact the Digital Platform Workers’ Right Act, 2022 and to amend various Acts.

The AI + Society Initiative, the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Policy, and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce that Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Michael Da Silva has been appointed as a Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Southampton School of Law, as of April 1, 2022. 

On February 28th 2022, Faculty member Dr. Michael Geist appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI). The Committee is reviewing the collection and use of mobility data by the Public Health Agency of Canada to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.