AI and Robotics

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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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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Watch Now: Four Talks Questioning Human-Like Properties of AI

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Four fascinating talks at the University of Toronto’s public workshop, “Intelligence in the Absence of Life,” are now available on video. Delivered to a packed audience on April 9, 2024, these talks put the so-called human-like properties of AI under the microscope and raised questions concerning the meaning of creativity, intelligence, and ethics today. Hosted

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Lecture on AI and the (Post-) Apocalyptic Imaginary

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Starting November 8th, 2022, the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg will be live-streaming a series of weekly lectures that consider “end of the world” themes in artificial intelligence and climate change discourses, and Late Capitalist consumer culture, among other areas of interest.

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