AI shapes daily life but remains unreliable and costly. Canada can lead by investing in the mathematics that make these systems fair, efficient and trusted.
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Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t be able to operate accurately without human oversight.
We need a deeper understanding of what exactly children’s safety and wellbeing online looks like.
It starts with one innocuous video. It ends in misogyny, anger and nihilism. Welcome to this online rabbit-hole of toxic masculinity.
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.
Just because you ‘heard it on a podcast’, it doesn’t mean the info is necessarily more trustworthy than a random social media post.
In this age of algorithms, personalized insurance is encountering legal limits, especially the ban on discrimination. Can we balance accurate pricing, solidarity, and fairness?
With the change of ownership, TikTok’s algorithm – the secret sauce of its success – is going to be reset for US users. What differences users will see is unclear, but changes are coming.
Memes don’t just mock or mythologize — they shape political feeling. From Trump and Musk to Mangione, viral images remake our sense of identity and justice.
A new book explores how media outlets are controlled by powerful forces, from governments to corporations, in Africa and Latin America.
AI models can help us to repurpose existing medicines, cutting research costs and timescales.
Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.
Spotify officially claims it was started because its founders ‘love music and piracy was killing it’. But a new book argues this is rewriting history.
What do Sudoku, AI, Rubik’s cubes, clocks and molecules have in common? They can all be reimagined as algebraic equations.
Don’t tune out. Do be strategic about where, how and when you get your information. A media literacy expert explains how to have good ‘news hygiene.’
A social media researcher explains how to analyze your news feed in terms of content, circulation and consumption.
By slightly altering their algorithms, video sharing websites like YouTube could help achieve vital advances in climate action across the political spectrum.
Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human.
The damage AI algorithms cause is not easily remedied. Breaking algorithmic harms into four categories results in pieces that better align with the law and points the way to better regulation.
RealPage Inc. provides software that helps landlords keep rental prices high. The Justice Department called foul on the price-fixing practice.
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Data Science; Director, Adelaide Data Science Centre, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics, UNSW
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
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Head of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
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University of Hertfordshire
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Professor, Real Estate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Lecturer in Computer Science/Co-founder Women Leading in AI, Keele University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Strategic Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Visiting researcher, Alan Turing Institute