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 →The federal government's new national AI strategy is precise and costed on the building of AI, but goes general on the questions that have made Canadians wary of it. Adoption and governance are not alternatives — and that assurance is what the strategy postpones.
I joined Jayme Poisson on Front Burner to wrestle with the complexity of restricting children's access to social media — and now AI chatbots. The Online Harms Act, amended to bring chatbots into scope and paired with a moratorium, is the right architecture. A permanent or standalone ban is not.
Aza Raskin and the Earth Species Project are using machine learning to decode the language of other species. The implications—for science, for law, for what we think we are—are staggering.
Hélène Landemore and Peter MacLeod argue that electoral politics is no longer capable of delivering good governance — and maybe never was. Could part of the solution to AI be giving more power back to people?
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.