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The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Jason Millar has been appointed as part-time Distinguished Research Director at Partnership on AI (PAI).

Artificial Intelligence has been identified as an emerging research priority area for the Faculty of Medicine in its 2020-25 Strategic Plan.

The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa and Fellow Dr. B. Courtney Doagoo have contributed to Leaps and Boundaries, a new report by the Council of Canadian Academies that examines a broad range of factors related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in scientific research and disco...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Céline Castets-Renard was recently awarded a SSHRC Parternship Engage Grant for a project entitled “Profilage racial et impact des technologies utilisées par la police à Montréal-Saint Michel”.

The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce that Dr. Henry Fraser and Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino have won the inaugural Scotiabank AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award, and Aileen Nielsen has won the runner-up award.

The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is delighted to announce the launch by researchers at CRAiEDL of Calibrating Stretched Transparency, a multidisciplinary project aiming to explore and disseminate the intersection of geoengineering and AI, while also critiquing its ethical implications through a visual medium.

Can large-scale geoengineering be a solution to global warming? Can artificial intelligence (AI) control such technologies? What could be the impact on our society, on wealth and power, on communities?

The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is delighted to announce the release of AI & Health Care: A Fusion of Law & Science. Regulation of Medical Devices with AI, a second finding report supported by CIFAR AI and Society Program and led by Dr. Colleen M. Flood.

The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the 2021 Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholars Workshop, and the Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Teresa Scassahas been appointed by the Council of Canadian Academies as Chair of theExpert Panel on AI for Science and Engineering that will examine a broad range of factors related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in scientific research and d...