Academic, author and podcast host exploring how digital technologies are reshaping democratic societies and how they should be governed.
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at McGill University. Founding Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. Host of Machines Like Us.
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View all →As Silicon Valley flirts with the idea of artificial consciousness, Michael Pollan's new book A World Appears asks what consciousness actually is, where it comes from, and why the answer matters more than ever.
Nate Soares didn't move on from the existential risk conversation. His book with Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that if we keep going down the path we're on, it will lead to our collective extinction. If there's a chance he's right, we need to hear him out.
After OpenAI's failure to report a shooter's flagged conversations to law enforcement, the instinct is to demand mandatory reporting. But the better path is upstream regulation that changes how these products are built.
New research from our centre measures how AI models handle Canadian news. The findings: no source attribution 82% of the time — and the evidence suggests this is a design choice, not a technical limitation.
OpenAI's voluntary commitments to Minister Solomon are welcome but reinforce the case for legislation. Plus, a conversation with The Decibel on why online harms and AI consumer safety are one problem.