The deadline to apply to SRI’s AI & Trust Working Group has been extended to September 5, 2025.
Help shape how AI earns public trust across social, political, and cultural contexts.
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#AI #Trust #TechAndSociety
08.08.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria Workshop | Vancouver 2025
Are there any good ones? Join us in Vancouver on July 14th, 2025 to explore stable equilibria and human agency in a post-AGI world. Co-located with ICML.
What futures are possible after AGI?
This week in Vancouver, @davidduvenaud.bsky.social hosted "Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria: Are there any good ones?" -exploring how to safeguard human interests after AI exceeds human ability.
Talk recordings will be posted soon!
Learn more: post-agi.org
15.07.2025 20:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Six years ago @jackclarksf.bsky.social and I proposed regulatory markets as a new model for AI governance that would attract more investment---money and brains—in a democratically legitimate way, fostering AI innovation while ensuring these powerful technologies don’t 1/2
12.06.2025 00:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats to Sheila McIlraith, Ebrahim Bagheri & Gillian Hadfield on receiving CIFAR’s inaugural AI Safety Catalyst Grants!
SRI-affiliated researchers at the forefront of building safe, transparent, and trustworthy AI systems.
🔗 cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
05.06.2025 20:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to @yoshuabengio.bsky.social on the launch of @law-zero.bsky.social, a new nonprofit focused on safe-by-design AI systems.
Further congratulations to @davidduvenaud.bsky.social, co-chair of SRI, for joining as a member of its Scientific Advisory Team.
#AI #LawZero #SafeAI
03.06.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black Research Network: 2025–26 SRI research leads
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society has launched its call for research leads. Are you a University of...
📢 @torontosri.bsky.social are looking for research leads!
Are you a #UofT faculty member who leads innovative research on technology’s impact on society? Research leads help shape SRI’s direction and drive projects that make a real-world impact.
🗓 Deadline: June 8
#BlackResearchNetwork
28.05.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to attend this workshop on #AI at UofT today.
29.05.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✨Tomorrow’s the day!✨
Absolutely Interdisciplinary brings researchers, creators, and scholars together to rethink how we build a tech future rooted in human well-being.
A few spots left—register here: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
#AbsolutelyInterdisciplinary #TechAndSociety #AI
28.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s happening this Thursday!
Absolutely Interdisciplinary is almost here—and there are just a few seats left.
Join an incredible group of thinkers reimagining the future of AI, technology, and society.
🎟️ You can still register: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
#AbsolutelyInterdisciplinary #AI
26.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
⏰ There's still time to apply to be a 2025–26 SRI research lead!
@uoft.bsky.social faculty: Work at the intersection of tech + society. Collaborate across disciplines. Engage beyond the university.
🔗 Apply: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/2025-re...
#UofT #AI #AcademicResearch
21.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share @uoft.bsky.social Embedded Ethics Education Initiative (E3I) just won the 2025 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching + Learning!
Supported by SRI, E3I embeds ethics in CS courses, reaching 10K enrollments/year.
Learn about E3I: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/research-sol...
#UofT #TechEthics
20.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely Interdisciplinary
The countdown is on: 2 weeks to go until Absolutely Interdisciplinary!
An amazing lineup of speakers is ready to dive into how #AI & emerging tech are reshaping our world.
Don’t miss it—register now 👉 absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
#TechAndSociety #Innovation #UofT
15.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Absolutely Interdisciplinary
You can see David present live in person at the 2025 Absolutely Interdisciplinary conference in #Toronto on May 29!
Register today: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
05.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?
“What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do — only better?”
In The Guardian today, SRI Chair @davidduvenaud.bsky.social explores what happens when AI doesn't destroy us — it just quietly replaces us.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
#AI #AIEthics #TechAndSociety
05.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
💡Absolutely Interdisciplinary Panel Announcement: New Frontiers in AI Governance💡
Explore the challenges of governing powerful ‘frontier’ #AI systems with @atoosakz.bsky.social Nitarshan Rajkumar and moderator @karinavold.bsky.social!
Register today: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
01.05.2025 19:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One month until Absolutely Interdisciplinary — where technical researchers, social scientists, and humanists come together to tackle the challenges of AI and emerging tech.
Join us!
📅 May 29, 2025
🔗https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
#AI #TechAndSociety #UofT #FutureofAI
29.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely Interdisciplinary Panel Announcement: Navigating autonomy and accountability in AI agents
Megan Ma, Atrisha Sarkar and moderator @theannasu.bsky.social will examine the ethical, legal & policy challenges of governing AI agents.
Register: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
24.04.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 We are excited to announce that @sarahooker.bsky.social, head of @cohereforai.bsky.social has joined the Absolutely Interdisciplinary lineup as a keynote speaker!
Register for Absolutely Interdisciplinary today: www.eventbrite.ca/e/absolutely...
16.04.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research & Communications Specialist
Research & Communications Specialist
🚨 We’re hiring! Join our communications team as our new Research & Communications Specialist.
📅 Apply by April 21, 2025
🔗 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
#CommunicationsJobs #ResearchJobs #UofT #TorontoJobs #ScienceCommunication #SocialImpact #AI #TechEthics #PublicEngagement
10.04.2025 13:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely Interdisciplinary
Big news! SRI Chair @davidduvenaud.bsky.social will give a keynote at the Absolutely Interdisciplinary conference on May 29! A leading AI safety researcher, he’ll discuss AI’s existential risks + the need to counteract the erosion of human influence. Register now! absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
09.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
Critical AI's 2nd issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue/2/1!
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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
Urology Resident & Doctoral Student in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto | Alum of McGill Medicine & Harvard Chan School of Public Health | he/him
Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
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Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @ox.ac.uk (Faculty of Law & Institute for Ethics in AI). Fellow @reubencollege.bsky.social. Book: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
Professor & Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. Researcher in cybersecurity and informatics.
Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Working at the intersection of all things tech law and human rights - online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, platforms, AI, security.
Law professor specializing in tech law (privacy, AI, data). Gardener.
Law Professor, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa
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