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Upcoming Event: 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture

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Title: Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet Speaker: Teresa Heffernan When & Where: Monday, February 23, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Campbell Conference Facility, University of Toronto More Information & Registration: https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/where-artificial-intelligence-and-fiction-meet Description: The Jackman Humanities Institute invites you to the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture “Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet” and reception […]

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Welcome to Big Tech, Corporate-Owned Chatbots, and the Totalitarian Fantasy of AI Gurus

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By Teresa Heffernan. Originally published in the Halifax Examiner, October 20, 2025. In 2017, at a conference in California organized by the transhumanist Max Tegmark, there was a gathering of many well known players in the AI Industry — to name a few Ray Kurzweil, Demis Hassabis, Nick Bostrom, Eric Schmidt, Willam MacAskill, Yoshua Bengio, Elon

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An Open Letter to Evan Solomon, Minister of AI

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By Teresa Heffernan. Orginally published in the Halifax Examiner, May 16, 2025. Dear Minister Solomon, Congratulations on your new post as Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.  I hope you will use this position to ensure copyright laws are enforced, to stop the theft and sale of data, to protect Canadians from resource-intensive and

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Trusting AI? Melissa Gismondi in Conversation with Teresa Heffernan

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Setting the scene for a provocative interview with Teresa Heffernan, Melissa Gismondi, host of the Jackman Humanities Institute podcast series, opens by instructing ChatGPT to: “Write me a brief description of a podcast featuring humanities and literature scholars discussing the perils of AI.” With her keyboard clicking in the background, this award-winning writer and audio

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