
Research Summaries
The Bias of Harmful Label Associations in Vision-Language Models
🔬 Research Summary by Caner Hazirbas, Research Scientist at Meta and Ph.D. graduate in Computer Vision from the Technical University of Munich. [Original paper by Caner Hazirbas, Alicia…
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Self-Improving Diffusion Models with Synthetic Data
🔬 Research Summary by Sina Alemohammad, a PhD candidate at Rice University with a focus on the interaction between generative models and synthetic data. [Original paper by Sina…
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The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
🔬 Research Summary by Anuja Jaiswal, a human rights consultant with a special focus on tech accountability, transitional justice, and gender equality. [Original paper by Timnit Gebru and…
Digital Sex Crime, Online Misogyny, and Digital Feminism in South Korea
🔬 Research Summary by Giuliana Luz Grabina, a McGill University philosophy alumna, with an interest in AI/technology policy regulation from a gendered perspective. [Original paper by Minyoung Moon]…
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The State of Artificial Intelligence in the Pacific Islands
🔬 Research Summary by Simran Singh. Simran is a Research Associate at the AI Asia Pacific Institute with a law degree from India and an MBA from Singapore…
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Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review
🔬 Research Summary by Francesca Carlon. Francesca works for the Research Group “Ethics of Generative AI” at the University of Stuttgart. Her interests cover Ethics & AI, NLP,…
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Insights & Perspectives
AI Governance on the Ground: Canada’s Algorithmic Impact Assessment Process and Algorithm has evolved
✍️ Report Summary by Kate Kaye, a researcher, award-winning journalist and deputy director of the World Privacy Forum, a non-partisan public interest research 501c3 nonprofit organization. Kate is…
The Death of Canada’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act: What Happened, and What’s Next for AI Regulation in Canada?
✍️ Op-Ed by Blair Attard-Frost, a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. She researches and teaches about the governance of AI systems in Canada and globally. Summary…
Should AI-Powered Search Engines and Conversational Agents Prioritize Sponsored Content?
✍️ By Sun Gyoo Kang1 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely my own and do not reflect my employer’s opinions, beliefs, or positions. Any opinions…
Can we blame a chatbot if it goes wrong?
✍️ Column by Sun Gyoo Kang, Lawyer. This column is dedicated to the memory of Abhishek Gupta, founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, who recently passed away.…
The irony of having a clean AI chatbot
✍️ Column by Sun Gyoo Kang, Lawyer. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely my own and do not reflect my employer’s opinions, beliefs, or positions.…
AI Applications in Agriculture: Sustainable Farming
🔬 Original article by Aixa Lacroix from Encode Justice Canada This is a part of our Recess series in which university students from across Canada briefly explain key…
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