Grimes asked where all the artists in tech are. I know one. Suzy Easton recorded with Steve Albini, put in twelve-plus years in QA, and played her Futureproof debut on an AI instrument she’s building herself.
Category: AI Ethics & Philosophy
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Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.
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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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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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The AI Doc is beautifully made and worth your two hours. It’s also a comfort machine, and the cheeriest voices in it are the people holding the biggest positions in the thing they’re cheering for. Follow…
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Morgane Oger asked the good version of the copyright and AI question: if artists learn from artists, what makes machine training different? The answer lives in consent, scale, secrecy, and substitution.
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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 does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
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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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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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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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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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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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Kris Krüg 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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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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I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it, and spent the rest of the day finding…
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Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy. I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest…
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4 weeks. Built with Martin Lopatka and Sarah Downey. First cohort starts May 22. Wrote up the whole story… the gap, the collaborators, what’s actually in it, and the honest notes about the pilot.
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Kate Armstrong turned the planetarium into a séance. Flux LoRA trained on her hot tub paintings. Not AI wallpaper… an oracle of leisure, plumbing, and the post-body future.