Jiri Lehecka had a similar injury, it took a few months but now he’s back and playing well…i take hope from that case.

I am thrilled to announce that I will begin my PhD at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto this week. I’ll be building on my previous work in AI governance while expanding my focus to trace and explore the broader landscape of technology policy challenges in Canada ☀️

A shame to discredit Muller for winning, especially as Muller just released a short documentary about being a tennis pro with Crohn’s disease.

I haven’t done sufficient research on that front to answer that confidently, but I will say is that these type of patterns can be detected and there should be more coordination work between stakeholders to 1) identify it 2) address it properly, which is currently not happening.

and it often goes back to having adequate facilitation, having a deep respect and understanding of the role of ground rules + what prevents people from participating in them (e.g work, familial commitments, health, etc)

been thinking about this recently, particularly in regards to participatory democracy practices…what needs to be done to ensure these practices aren’t harming people?

2) social media platforms should all have dedicated fact-checkers (people not just automated tools) that can immediately label content images uploaded. these efforts can be led through a regulatory body that supports standards making processes for interoperability

There are many things that need to be done, which require both technical and non-technical interventions. 1) At a technical level, companies providing AI tools that generate content should develop watermarks (visible and invisible),

NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨

We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.

a man playing tennis on a court with a jobsohio sign in the background ALT: a man playing tennis on a court with a jobsohio sign in the background

this guy? hmm, the great north remembers.

nope. happened at a challenger late last year in Ecuador.

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.

Our takeaway from the Paris AI Action Summit: It's time to start thinking about how we can work against "AI governance" when it fails to include impacted communities

Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris

"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."

Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Notion Join us for an independent symposium, taking place online and in-person, organized to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on...

This Saturday! I'll be co-presenting "AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure", a new project with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @christelle.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social

If you're in Paris for the AI Action Summit, come say hi!

Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Notion Join us for an independent symposium, taking place online and in-person, organized to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on...

Excited to co-present AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure alongside @blairaf.com @christelle.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium in Paris on Feb 8 @ Sciences Po.

Join us!

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Student information dating back to 1985 may have been accessed in TDSB cyber incident Student information for those who attended Toronto District School Board as far back as 1985 may have been compromised by a cyber incident that happened in December 2024. On Jan. 8, the TDSB sent a le...

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/01/20/s...

Too many 5-set matches in R1 and R2, but good tennis level nonetheless.

OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company OpenAI said the structure will help it raise more money.

A little something for the mid-holiday news dump hall of fame www.theverge.com/2024/12/27/2...

a timely reminder that deep neural networks ≠ neurons

'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.

Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster "throttle" access to e-books by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both.

AI poses threat to North American electricity grid, watchdog warns Surging demand from tech sector could overwhelm generation capacity, report says

"The shortfall could cause blackouts during peak demand periods in both countries, and will be worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries and hybrid resources to the grid, according to NERC."

www.ft.com/content/7c24...

putting the crowd to sleep lmao

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD Exclusive: Lawsuit brought by former moderators against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya * PTSD, depression and anxiety: why former Facebook moderators in Kenya are taking legal action * ‘The work damaged me’: ex-Facebook moderators…

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD

This immediately made me think of the @sunhahong.bsky.social paper "Prediction as Extraction of Discretion"

An algorithm was supposed to fix Canada’s food safety system. Instead, it missed a deadly listeria outbreak Five years ago, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency began letting manufacturers increasingly police themselves under a new system of oversight. Now three people are dead and many more have been harmed...

"Under the old system, an inspector could use discretion on which plants needed more attention [...] 'The problem with the current system where everything is totally algorithm-based is it doesn’t allow for inspector judgment'”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Is AI really a game-changer for Canadian productivity 🕵🏾? At the @daistmu.bsky.social, we conducted a study which found no conclusive evidence of a strong positive or negative relationship between AI adoption and short-term productivity improvement. Give it a read and lmk what you think!

The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada have formed a coalition to sue OpenAI, in a joint statement they say that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.

I guess this means that Sinner will also probably get a 1 month suspension...and that time where he was provisionally suspended will be counted...