Jennie Day
Jennie Day
Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab




Biography

Dr.  Jennie Day is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL) and at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

Dr. Jennie Day researches the relationship between emerging technologies and societies – and how they mutually shape one another in complex ways – with the aim of influencing sociodigital futures towards fairer, more inclusive and democratic ends.  

Her interdisciplinary research examines the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sociodigital futures through the prism of autonomous vehicle (AV) emergence. It explores critical questions about the material power of AI imaginaries, algorithmic power and injustice, technological ontologies, democratic conceptions of the public interest, technological solutionism, and governance of sociodigital futures.