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Prepared by: Mirka Snyder Caron, Sr. Associate, MAIEI Abhishek Gupta, Founder, MAIEI and ML Engineer, Microsoft To read the full 78-page consultation including a summary in PDF form (including community insights), … [Read more...] about Response to Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Consultation Proposals pertaining to amendments to PIPEDA relative to Artificial Intelligence

By Florence Simon (Philosophy & Psychology, McGill University) This paper addresses the concerns mentioned in Sullins’ article “When is a Robot a Moral Agent?” in addition to exploring Selmer Bringsjord’s … [Read more...] about The Nonexistent Moral Agency of Robots – A Lack of Intentionality and Free Will

Featured image credit: Owen Smith By Tess Buckley (Philosophy & International Development, McGill University) Preview: This paper will argue that a robot has a degree of autonomy. It will then be … [Read more...] about Computers, Creativity and Copyright: Autonomous Robot’s Status, Authorship, and Outdated Copyright Laws

By Audrey Balogh (Philosophy, McGill University) This paper problematizes the case for autonomous robots as loci of moral responsibility in circuits of networked agency, namely by troubling an analogy drawn … [Read more...] about Probing Networked Agency: Where is the Locus of Moral Responsibility?

By Dalia Renzullo (Philosophy, McGill University) Abstract: The development of anthropomorphic AI technology is part of a process of social acclimatization that facilitates its use for capitalist goals. It is … [Read more...] about Anthropomorphized AI as Capitalist Agents: The Price We Pay for Familiarity