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Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most influential and beloved advocates for nature conservation, delivered the 2019 Beatty Lecture at McGill University on Thursday, September 26. Dr. Goodall delivered her first Beatty … [Read more...] about 3 activism lessons from Jane Goodall you can apply in AI Ethics

By Abhishek Gupta (Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, and Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, where he sits on the AI Ethics Review Board for Commercial Software Engineering) 1: What are the ethical … [Read more...] about AI in Finance: 8 Frequently Asked Questions

By Anthony De Luca-Baratta (Philosophy & Political Science, McGill University) This paper explores how traditional consequentialism falls short in scenarios involving autonomous vehicles and social robots. A … [Read more...] about Autonomous Vehicles, Social Robots, and the Mitigation of Risk: A New Consequentialist Approach

Kathleen Siminyu is a data scientist & machine learning engineer who is Regional Coordinator for the Artificial Intelligence for Development - Africa Network. She is Co-Founder of the Nairobi Women in Machine … [Read more...] about How Kathleen Siminyu created Kenya’s go-to space for Women in Machine Learning

By Abhishek Gupta Let’s start with a brief history for this series of events that’s been running for over a year now and counts 1000+ people from the Montreal community as its members. How it all started? It … [Read more...] about AI Ethics: Inclusivity in Smart Cities