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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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Review of Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI”

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By Ellen Nantau In Atlas of AI (Yale 2021), Kate Crawford takes an ambitious and innovative approach to addressing misconceptions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Through the course of her book, she reveals the human and planetary resources being appropriated at every stage in AI industry supply chains and their associated social and ecological impacts. In

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