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There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

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I'll have more to say when the final version of the strategy is published, but the overwhelming emphasis on adoption, infra, & instrumentalist notions of "AI literacy" doesn't bode well for those concerned about trust, safety, equity, labor & human rights, etc. www.cbc.ca/news…

Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News cbc.ca

Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/e…

Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy pm.gc.ca

Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

Conference Programs programs.sigchi.org

How to automate your way out of polycrisis arxiv.org/abs/2403.00465

Polyamorous Scheduling arxiv.org

I wrote this piece on the future of AI regulation in Canada when a Conservative election win still seemed likely - the regulatory approach in Canada's new AI strategy is even more conservative than what I anticipated the Conservative approach would be montrealethics.ai/the-dea…

The Death of Canada’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act: What Happened, and What’s Next for AI Regulation in Canada? | Montreal AI Ethics Institute montrealethics.ai

Thread of some of my work for new followers "AI Countergovernance" is an essay that provides a playbook & toolkit for communities and workers to resist harmful AI policies and take AI regulation into their own hands www.midnightsunmag.ca/ai-countergo...

AI Countergovernance midnightsunmag.ca

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

A frequent gap in AI policy papers at FAccT is that many assume policymakers always act in the public interest

AI critique needs to spend less time explaining why sci-fi AI scenarios like catastrophic global risk, superintelligence, singularity aren't actually possible and more explaining how weird billionaires are hyperstitioning ersatz versions of these scenarios into existence

Recently heard an elected official say "AI adoption is not political" and it is still playing on loop in my mind

Working at the intersection of AI governance x trans stuff is fun because one like will come from account with a bio like "Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Global Political Thought" and the next like will be from "RABID TRANSSEXUAL DEMONGIRL"

An effective tactic in AI policy criticism is to expose points of counterproductivity - highlight instances where load-bearing concepts like "trust", "safety", or "sovereignty" are applied inconsistently, incompletely, or hypocritically

Once again summarizing the rise and fall of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Act for yet another paper, if you work on AI governance in Canada you simply cannot escape the shadow of this legendary policy failure

Reading my AI bible backwards with my AI bodyguard in the AI background on linkedin .com