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New (co-written) from me: The Canadian government’s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new technologies

Posted on August 17, 2023 by bhaggart

Over at The Conversation, co-written with Natasha Tusikov. In which we express our ongoing frustration with what, at this point, can only be described as the federal government’s refusal to conduct meaningful public consultations on data-governance issues. The government’s just-announced … Continue reading →

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The three pillars supporting the chatbot craze

Posted on February 17, 2023 by bhaggart

Comment of the day, courtesy of Eevee on Mastodon: remarkable to watch the curve of computing go from “it will do exactly, precisely what you ask of if” to “here’s a few heuristics for less well-defined problems” to “self-driving is … Continue reading →

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