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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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“Intelligence” in the Absence of Life Workshop (April 2024)

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UPDATE (March 22): Go here to read an interview with Teresa Heffernan about this workshop on April 9, 2024. With aspects of human, social life like intelligence and ethical responsibility so often now attributed to the machinic artifacts of the AI industry, the (seeming) absence of living human beings from the scene of technology warrants

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Upcoming: AI as the New Oil and Other Myths

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“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data,” The Economist declared in 2017 in an article discussing how governments might regulate those “titans” of the 21st century global economy, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. The idea that data, and AI more broadly, is the “new oil” and these companies the

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