In the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture (Feb 23, 2026), Teresa Heffernan delved into the question of how discussions of a technological future change if the AI industry co-opts fiction. From Alan Turing to Douglas Adams to Demis Hassabis, the fiction and science of AI have long been entangled and conflated in the cultural imaginary.
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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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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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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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