Where conversations about ethics happen.
Talks from the Series:
- Mireille Hildebrandt, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech
- Paul Gowder, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech
- Frank Pasquale, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech
- Joe Halpern, Moral Responsibility, Blameworthiness, and Intention: In Search of Formal Definitions
- Mark Kingwell, Respect and the Artificial Other
- Sheila Jasanoff: Ethical Futures, Imagination and Governance in an Unequal World
- Sunit Das, AI in Medicine: Hopes? Nightmares?
- Brian Cantwell Smith, Reckoning and Judgment
- Hector Levesque, Rethinking the Place of Thinking in Intelligent Behaviour
- Molly Sauter, Algorithmic Ethics and Personhood
2018
- Kristina Verner, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the “Smart City”
- Ruben Gaetani, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the “Smart City”
- John Lorinc, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the “Smart City”
- Mark Fox, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the “Smart City”
- Mariana Valverde, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the “Smart City”
- Frank Rudzicz, The Future of Automated Healthcare
- Mireille Hildebrandt, The Ethics of Agonistic Machine Learning
- Pamela Robinson, Canadian Smart Cities: Defining the Public Good
- Richard Zemel, Ensuring Fair and Responsible Automated Decisions
- Regina Rini, Democracy and Social Media are Incompatible: Now What?
- Mireille Hildebrandt, The Ethics of Smart Cities: Interacting with Non-Human Agents
- Bianca Wylie, Countering the Digital Consensus: The Political Economy of the Smart City
- Mark Fox, Are We Building Smart Cities on Dumb Information Systems?
- Kathryn Hume, Ethical Algorithms: Bias and Explainability in Machine Learning
- Ronald Deibert, These Are the Sensors in My Neighbourhood
- Klaus Günther, Freedom in a Universe of Echoes?
- Petra Molnar, Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System
- Moshe Vardi, The Ethical Crisis in Computing?
- E.G. Rajan, Crime Prediction Support System
- Kelly Hannah-Moffat: Response to E.G. Rajan on Crime Prediction Support System
- Mark S. Fox, Accountable AI Systems
- John Vervaeke, Why the Creation of A.I. Requires the Cultivation of Wisdom on Our Part
- Avery Slater, Kill-Switch: The Ethics of the Halting Problem
- Ken Greenberg, A Human-centred Use of Technology in Cities
2019
- Sunit Das, Vinyas Harish & Felipe Morgado, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Diagnostics and the Limits of Certainty
- Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm
- Tracey Lauriault, From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
- Étienne Brown, Misinformation and Freedom of Expression
- Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Risk, Intersectional Inequalities and Racial Proxies
- Chelsea Barabas, Beyond Accuracy and Bias: The Pursuit of “Ethical AI” in Criminal Law
- Judith Donath, Artificial Entities
- Tom Slee, Private Sector AI: Ethics and Incentives
- John Basl, AI Rights
- Jason Millar, Social Failure Modes in Technology – Implications for AI
- Avery Slater, Computation and Creativity
- Anton Korinek, Economic and Ethical Perspectives on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence
- Jason Jackson, The Ethics of AI: A Political Economy Approach
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez, “Fair Notice” in the Age of Big Data
- Ellen P. Goodman, Smart City Ethics
- Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
- Sheila McIlraith, Making Good Decisions and Getting AI to Do the Same
- Nagla Rizk: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in the Middle East
- Book Forum on Mark Kingwell’s Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface (full video)
- Lauren Bialystok, Randomness, Mindfulness, and the Games People Play
- Ira Wells, “To Be Unborable”: A Response to Mark Kingwell’s Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface
- Molly Sauter, Comment on Wish I Were Here
- Mark Kingwell, A Response to Comments on Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface
- Mark Kingwell, Author’s Introduction to Book Forum on Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface
- Editors’ Preface, in Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (Dubber, Pasquale, Das)
- Ifeoma Ajunwa, The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention
- Teresa Heffernan, The Ethical Imagination: Humanities versus Artificial Intelligence
- Marzyeh Ghassemi, Can Machines Learn from Our Mistakes?
- John Basl & Jeff Behrends, Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles
- Jeff Behrends, Ethics Education in Computer Science: The Embedded EthiCS Approach
- Kristen Thomasen, Out of Their Cages and Into the City: Robots, Regulation, and the Changing Nature of Public Spaces
- Anna Goldenberg, Advances and Challenges of AI in Healthcare
- Daniel Greene, Making Ethics in Machine Learning
2020
- Zack Lipton, Fairness, Interpretability and the Dangers of Solutionism
- Parisa Moosavi, If Non-Sentient Organisms Can Have Rights Why Can’t Robots?
- Ida Koivisto, Thinking Inside the Box: The Promise and Boundaries of Transparency in Automated Decision-Making
- Teresa Scassa, Pandemic Privacy (The Ethics of COVID)
- The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI: An International & Interdisciplinary Workshop (conference video)
- Sidewalk Toronto Revisited: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Ethics in the City) (panel video)
- Veena Dubal, Surveillance Is Not a Social Good: Technocapital, Public Health, and the Pandemic
- Natasha Tusikov, Going Cashless in an Era of Digital Payments & Surveillance (The Ethics of COVID)
- Aleena Chia, Diagrams of Flexibility in the Future of Work
- V.B. Dubal, The Time Politics of Home-Based Digital Piecework
- Jeremias Adams-Prassl, When Your Boss Comes Home
- Valerio De Stefano, Algorithmic Bosses and How to Tame Them
- Cynthia Estlund, Why Work Is a Social Good and Freedom Is Overrated
- Igor Shoikhedbrod, Revaluing and Re-Politicizing Work in the Age of Automation and AI
- John Enman-Beech, Two Contractual Futures of Work
- Julian Posada, The Future of Work is Here: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Artificial Intelligence and Labour
- Igor Shoikhedbrod, Interrogating A World Without Work
- Alex Hanna, Data, Transparency, and AI Ethics
- Kate Robertson, Cynthia Khoo, Yolanda Song, To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada
- Mohamed Abdalla, The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
- André Brock, Black Morpheus: Race in the Technocultural Matrix
- Teresa Heffernan, AI, the Immortality Industry, and the Ethics of Death
- Rodrigo Ochigame, Actuarialism and Racial Capitalism
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism
- Vinith Suriyakumar, Chasing Your Long Tails: Differentially Private Prediction in Health Care Settings
- Anne-Marie Fowler, Differentiation is Mechanics, Integration is Art
- Muriam Fancy, Governance of Ethical AI: Methodologies to Procure Low Risk AI for Public Use
2021
- Robert Soden, Responsible AI in Disaster Risk Management: A Community of Practice Perspective
- Ishtiaque Ahmed, Whose Intelligence? Whose Ethics?: Ethical Pluralism and Postcolonial Computing
- Juliette Ferry-Danini, What Is the Problem with the Opacity of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine?
- Kamilah Ebrahim, The Limits of Anti-Trust Regulation: Reorienting Towards Considerations of Epistemic Power
- Book Forum on Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs (Valverde & Flynn eds., 2020)
- Devin Guillory, Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community
- Elettra Bietti, From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing: Viewing Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy
- Suzanne Kite and Scott Benesiinaabandan, Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence
- Ben Green, Algorithmic Governance: The Promises and Perils of Government Algorithms
- Julian Posada, Disembeddedness in Data Annotation for Machine Learning
- Abdi Aidid, Legal Prediction and Calcification Risk
- Avery Slater, The Golem and the Game of Automation
- Mathew Iantorno, Automating Care, Manufacturing Crisis
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez, The (Non)Automatability of Equity
- Frank Pasquale & Gianclaudio Malgieri, The New Turn on AI Accountability from the EU Regulation and Beyond
2022
- Ori Freiman, The Ethics of Central Bank Digital Currency
- Kristen Thomasen, Suzie Dunn, & Kate Robertson: Algorithmic Policing Policies through a Human Rights and Substantive Equality Lens: The Case of the TPSB AI Policy
- Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Algorithmic Adaptability and Ethics Washing: Appropriating the Critique
- Wendy Wong, Data You and the Challenge for Data Rights
- Dafna Dror-Shpoliansky & Yuval Shany, It’s the End of the (Offline) World as We Know It: From Human Rights to Digital Human Rights – A Proposed Typology
- Mishall Ahmed, Difference Centric yet Difference Transcended
- Tom Yeh & Benjamin Walsh, Is AI Creepy or Cool? Teaching Teens About AI and Ethics
- Julian Posada, The Coloniality Of Data Work For Machine Learning
- Sharon Ferguson, Increasing Diversity in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Kamilah Ebrahim & Erina Moon, Building Algorithms that Work for Everyone
- Nathan Olmstead, We are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto, Urban Data, and the Transtemporal Intersubjectivity of Digital Rights
- Conference: Afrofuturism and the Law
- Conference: Trust and the Ethics of AI