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 →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.
After OpenAI flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter's conversations but didn't alert Canadian law enforcement, Helen Hayes and I sent a memo to Ministers Solomon and Miller arguing that AI chatbots must be scoped into the forthcoming Online Harms Act.
Opening statement before the House Standing Committee on Science and Research on AI, drawing on my submission to the National AI Strategy Task Force.
Something very weird happened: AI agents got their own social media network. In a bonus episode of Machines Like Us, Derek Ruths and I try to make sense of what this means.
A conversation with Ava Smithing and Sneha Revanur — two of the most influential young voices in tech policy — about AI, democracy, and what their generation sees that the rest of us don't.