Author: Kris Krüg
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Zero to One: From Meetup to Movement
How a scrappy Vancouver meetup became a grassroots BC AI movement rooted in ceremony, community, practical learning, and relationships before transactions.
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What Would Chat Do? And Why That’s the Wrong Question
AI is a mirror, not a moral authority. The better question is not what the chatbot would do, but who is steering and what values are being amplified.
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Canada Doesn’t Need a Bigger AI Machine. It Needs a Better One.
Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
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AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Permit Process
AI will not repair broken civic systems by itself. Permit reform needs better process, public accountability, and human judgment before automation can help.
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Vancouver World Cup 2026 Hackathon & Design Jam
MADE ON is a World Cup protest kit collection that took double silver at the Vancouver Made hackathon. Everyone else made a souvenir. We made the receipt, with every claim cited on the hem, and a settler artist’s refusal to make the celebration jersey.
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The Great Canadian Proximity Game
Canada launched its AI for All strategy this week, and the applause economy switched on within the hour. Here is the difference between cheering for a strategy and actually delivering one.
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A Practical Guide to Agentic Workflows
A practical operating model for routing AI work through canonical skills, explicit gates, and evidence loops instead of treating every task like a one-off prompt with a fancy hat.
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Why We Built the Responsible AI Professional Certification
Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.
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Jordan Dack Asked the Questions Most Hosts Skip (STORYHIVE On Location, Victoria)
An ~80-minute STORYHIVE On Location sit-down with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl in Victoria — territory acknowledged, facts-or-fiction warm-up, both hands full on broadcast, Vancouver AI as infrastructure, and why human rooms still matter when the synthetic flood arrives.
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Sovereign AI for Whom?
A Web Summit Vancouver open letter asking who sovereign AI is really for; the neighbourhoods, host Nations, artists, builders, and citizens expected to carry the load.
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Speak It Into Existence: Voice-First AI Workflows
Voice-first AI is not just faster typing. It carries cadence, urgency, slang, uncertainty, worldview, and the human mess your fingers often filter out before the machine ever gets a chance to help.
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Canada’s AI for All Strategy: A Skeptical Guide to the Hype, the Money, and the Missing Guardrails
A refreshed skeptical guide to Canada’s June 4, 2026 AI for All strategy: what Carney and Solomon promised, what later coverage added, and where the public should keep asking for receipts.
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Agent Orchestrators, Creative Insurgents & The New Stack
A field guide for film, animation, and creative workers learning to orchestrate AI systems without surrendering taste, judgment, or authorship.
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The Long Road to Futureproof
Futureproof has been rattling around in my head for years. The difference now is that Vancouver has the people, the trust, and the room to make it real.
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You Can’t Drink Data
Kris Krug marches in Vancouver’s first anti-AI, anti-data-centre protest, and argues that ‘shut it all down’ and ‘more compute, trust us’ are the same dead end. A West Coast vision for building AI differently.
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Both Hands Full at the Data Center: Protest Signs for People Who Refuse to Pick a Side
I made AI protest signs for a Vancouver data-center fight, signs that refuse to pick a side. On water, compute, sovereignty, and holding both hands full.
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We Trained AI On Stolen Work. I Am More Creative Than Ever.
A public Vancouver AI talk about refusing the lazy binary. AI is compromised and powerful, harmful and useful, exhausting and creatively explosive.