David Carroll, an associate professor of media design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, talks about his research into how online advertising systems work. This research reveals just how little thought was put into oversight and monitoring of the systems that advertisers built.
Around the globe, thousands of informal workers are training artificial intelligence systems. Ronald Orol speaks with Mary Gray, co-author of a new book on the unseen labour that powers the internet, about the need for a better “social contract” when it comes to the rights of informal workers.
The adoption of artificial intelligence is having a profound impact on every sector, including the global arms industry. Jesse Hirsh argues that debating the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons may be a distraction from the larger issue of whether they should be permitted to exist in the first place.
With time running out, there is a lot at stake for #COP25 negotiations. Check out this thread of commentary from CIGI's international law experts and watch Rohinton P. Medhora's CTV interview, in which he outlines what to expect out of this year's conference.
According to Kevin Carmichael, central banks have quietly moved to the front lines of the climate fight. As bankers acknowledge the emerging threat of global warming, they are adjusting their decision making about how, and where, to invest.
A decade ago, global policy makers pulled the world out of a profound economic crisis. With risks to the global economy on the rise, James A. Haley asks: "could today's leaders do the same?"
Chidi Oguamanam explores the concepts of data sovereignty and Indigenous data sovereignty. He argues that data sovereignty is a vital tool that enhances the sustainability of decolonization and Indigenous resurgence.
Jan. 21 – 7:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00) – Waterloo, Canada: This film follows the research of an international body of scientists who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
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