Teresa Heffernan

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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“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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