Category: AI Ethics & Philosophy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Calling Us All In
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 out it was the right call.
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Punk Rock AI
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 place to stand right now.
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Applied Ethical AI: Responsible AI Professional Certification (RAP)
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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Spa at the End of Time
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.
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Name the Bias
Stop calling it “AI bias.” It’s misogyny when image generators strip authority from women. It’s racism when facial recognition fails Black women at 40x the rate it fails white men. It’s sexism when resume algorithms favor men. Name what you’re seeing. Make discrimination visible.
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A Creative Technologists AI Age Manifesto
How will you connect worlds that have never spoken to each other? Which voices will you amplify? What values will guide your choices? The future isn’t written in code yet—it’s being written by those brave enough to navigate digital chaos with bold authenticity, one unexpected connection at a time.
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Great Creative Reckoning: A Techartist’s Manifesto on Generative Artificial Intelligence.
When everything is possible, the only thing that matters is what you choose to do with that possibility.
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Unpacking AI Ethics at American Marketing Association#VisionConf2024
Ready to hack into the heart of AI ethics? Join us at BCAMA Vision Conference 2024 as we dissect regulatory hurdles, data privacy landmines, and more with our elite crew.
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Cognitive AI, Creativity, and Ethics w/ Professor Steve DiPaola
A look into the techno-thriller career of Steve DiPaola, where AI meets art, ethics, and humanity, and discover how his work is changing the world for the better.
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Bridging Innovation and Ethics: Future Proof Creatives and the Path Forward in AI
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries across the board. From healthcare to education, AI technologies are driving improved efficiencies, insights, and innovations across sectors. However, as Brenda Bailey, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-False Creek, British Columbia, Canada, emphasized in her keynote speech at the Microsoft Canada AI event, the development and adoption of AI