Author: Kris Krüg
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Futureproof Festival of AI
Futureproof Festival of AI is the room Vancouver has been rehearsing for, three days of art, technology, argument, and better questions at the Space Centre.
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Keep the Machine Strange: Technological Resistance in the Age of AI
Neil Postman did not predict AI. He left us something more useful: a discipline for refusing to treat any technology as the weather. Here is what technological resistance looks like in 2026.
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Both Hands on the Power Cord: AI, Energy and Who Gets Canada’s Future
I marched through Vancouver in a crowd chanting ‘Fuck AI.’ Then I went home and used AI to organize my notes. That contradiction is the work.
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No One Knows What to Call Us Yet
Daniela asked a small question in a WhatsApp thread and accidentally named the whole moment: what do we call this work before the paperwork catches up? A field-guide to the new AI film titles, and why the name has to follow the craft.
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AI Media Appearances, Podcast Guesting, and Broadcast Commentary
A public proof stack for AI podcast guesting, broadcast commentary, produced interviews, panels, hosting, and media work that keeps the weird parts honest.
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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.