The AI Ethics Brief
The AI Ethics Brief #193: ACM FAccT Comes to Montreal
FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it?
The AI Ethics Brief #192: Canada Has a National AI Strategy. The Hard Questions Come Next.
On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later.
The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn’t exist.
The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn’t exist.
The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For
On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics.
The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things
On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do.
Insights & Perspectives
Tech Futures: At the Frontier of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part…
Keynote at MISSION Hubs Forum2026, Montreal: How does AI impact Creative Agency work? Avoiding Goodhart’s Law
✍️ Column by Connor Wright, our Director of Partnerships. Photo Credit: Jackie Hutchinson on Unsplash Overview: Our Director of Partnerships, Connor Wright, was invited to speak at the MISSION Hubs…
Recess: Is AI in Law School a Helpful Tool or a Hidden Trap?
✍️By Emma Edney from Encode Canada. Emma is a BCL/JD McCall MacBain Scholar candidate at McGill University. Her interests include ethical issues surrounding personal information in technology and the impact…
Recess: For students at one of Canada’s top universities, how much AI is too much AI when guidelines from professors remain unclear?
✍️By Kennedy O’Neil from Encode Canada. Kennedy is an undergraduate sociology student at McGill University, with a minor in psychology, and a writer for Encode Canada. 📌 Editor’s Note: This…
Tech Futures: Introducing the Resist List
✍️ By Sarah Ruth and Marion Meyers Sarah is a researcher committed to building critical AI literacies and worked as a copywriter on the Resist List. Marion is an independent…
State of AI Ethics Report Volume 8 (2026): Call for Contributors
Power, Fracture, Resistance SAIER Volume 8 (2026) is now open for contributions. We are looking for practitioners, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and community members who are doing the work and who…
Research Summaries
SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Timm Dill Timm is a Student Research Assistant at the Chair for Data Science, University of Hamburg. [Original Paper by Margaret Mitchell, Giuseppe…
Mapping the Responsible AI Profession, A Field in Formation (techUK)
🔬 Report Summary by ✍️ Tess Buckley Tess is Programme Manager, Digital Ethics and AI Safety at techUK and holds a Masters in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence from…
Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Anastasia Siapka. Dr Anastasia Siapka is an attorney-at-law as well as an AI law and ethics researcher affiliated with the KU Leuven Centre…
Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Usman Gohar and Zeerak Talat. Usman Gohar is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University studying AI safety and Algorithmic Fairness.…
Ten Simple Rules for Good Model-sharing Practices
🔬 Research Summary by Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is trained in business management and philosophy of the social sciences. He is the founder and CEO of Kairoi, the…
Incentivized Symbiosis: A Paradigm for Human-Agent Coevolution
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Tomer Jordi Chaffer, founder of DeGov Labs. He holds an MSc in Experimental Medicine from McGill University and will begin his Juris Doctor…