Category: AI Ethics & Philosophy
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
Vancouver AI Community Meetups & BC + AI Ecosystem
The Vancouver AI Community Meetup welcomes all members of the community interested in the future of AI – researchers, artists, geeks, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, experts, students and more! Our goal is to build an engaged group through knowledge sharing, collaboration, and discussion of real-world applications and ethical implications of AI.
-
AI & Art: Changes in Animation, Special Effects, Film, Games & the Creative Industries
Can machines ever create art that touches the soul? I joined a panel of experts to unravel the enigma of AI in the art world.”
-
Shaping the Creative Continuum – My Take on the VANAS AI Panel
Art meets Algorithms: Are you ready for the future of creativity? ?? Join me as I explore the thrilling intersection of art and AI, the ethics we can’t ignore, and why the future of your creative career might just depend on a machine. Let’s write the unwritten together!
-
The Art of Augmented Creativity: Balancing AI, Community, and Self
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Thomas Girard for an in-depth interview exploring my diverse experiences at the intersection of art, technology and community. Over the course of 20 thought-provoking questions, we touched on passions spanning my photography journey, philosophies on life and progress, visions for the future, and so much more.
-
Organic Intelligence: Rika Nakagawa on Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation and AI
Rika Nagazawa delivered a thought-provoking keynote at this year’s Frontier Summit that challenged attendees to rethink some of their core assumptions. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and the latest scientific findings, she unveiled the concept of “organic intelligence” – the hidden wisdom and problem-solving abilities found throughout the natural world.
-
The Promise and Peril of AI: My Key Takeaways from the Impact Relations Institute Panel
I recently moderated an illuminating panel discussion on AI ethics and have so much to share! By learning together, we can shape a future guided by ethics, wisdom and care for one another rather than machines.