Isabel Pedersen
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Phd Director @Diglife3 Generative AI & ethics | Books: Embodied Computing @MITpress Augmentation Technologies & AI in Tech Com @Routledgebooks | @ontariotech_u
Toronto, Canada
Joined September 2008
Excited to see my new book is out with @routledgebooks! Augmentation Technologies & Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication @AHDuin & @isabel_pedersen "we are in the midst of an augmentation technology craze fueled partly by a blind trust in AI"
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RT @mesinatra: Delighted to be at Milieux Institute this morning for the 4th annual Stéfan Sinclair-CRIHN lecture with presentations by Isa….
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Geoffrey Hinton from University of Toronto awarded Nobel Prize in Physics | CBC News
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Scientists Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning...
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Could be pivotal for assistive tech. Meta “is working w/ a company called Be My Eyes to help people w/ vision impairments receive audio descriptions of the world around them using artificial intelligence & the cameras inside the glasses” @nytimes
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At an event in Silicon Valley, the company exhibited a range of products meant to blend the real world and virtual reality, with a healthy dose of A.I.
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"AI should no longer be treated as a pure STEM discipline".Vincent Boulanin, Charles Ovink, Julia Stoyanovich @stoyanoj, Raja Chatila @raja_chatila, Abhishek Gupta, Frank Dignum @frankdignum, @ludo_righetti, & Edson Prestes #aiethics #AI #AIdevelopment
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To mitigate risks, developers need more training
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“There should be mandatory courses on the societal impact of technology and responsible innovation, as well as specific training on AI ethics and governance. Those subjects should be part of the core curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels”.
"AI should no longer be treated as a pure STEM discipline but rather a transdisciplinary one that requires technical knowledge, yes, but also insights from the social sciences and humanities. There should be mandatory courses on #AIethics and governance." .
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RT @CarissaVeliz: "AI should no longer be treated as a pure STEM discipline but rather a transdisciplinary one that requires technical know….
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To mitigate risks, developers need more training
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Actors losing jobs in the games industry due to AI content generation, leading to calls for federal policies & regulations. Striking US video game actors say AI threatens their jobs | REUTERS via @YouTube.
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RT @FACETSJournal: New 📰| Compliance and enforcement in a brave new (green) world: best practices and technologies for green governance 🌿 R….
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The special section dedicated to honouring and celebrating Dr. Halcyon Lawrence's legacy includes contributions from Sarah Dammeyer, Liz Hutter, Shiva Hari Mainaly, Lauren Neefe and Temitope Ojedele-Adejumo.
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This issue also includes a special section honoring the legacy of Dr. Halcyon Lawrence, organized by CDQ editor-in-chief Jordan Frith.
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Authors: Chen Chen, Amber Buck, Leah Heilig, Madison Jones, Ally Overbay, & Taylor Roberts, Philip B. Gallagher & Marci J Gallagher, Danielle Feldman Karr, Jared S. Colton, Steve Holmes, & Josephine Walwema, Rachel Tofteland-Trampe, Haley Swartz, Charles Woods & Gavin P. Johnson!.
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Stambler, Veeramoothoo, & Davis state: "Importantly, we recognize that unpacking digital life as a framework while also centering social justice means broadening the scope of and participation in the conversation". #digitallife.
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"this issue showcases how entangled, multifaceted, and in many ways simultaneously intangible and embodied, our digital lives are and suggests a range of productive ways to approach digital life in our scholarship, pedagogy, and practice".
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Special #CDQ Issue on Digital Life live! Danielle Mollie Stambler, Saveena (Chakrika) Veeramoothoo & Katlynne Davis, intro: Toward Digital Life: Embracing, Complicating, and Reconceputalizing Digital Literacy in Communication Design .
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"Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT on Apple devices aren't just a test for AI tech, but also for new privacy approaches that are necessary to safely use large AI models over the internet." @CBCNews .
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After Apple announced a suite of new AI tools for its devices on Monday, including integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies due to what he said were...
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AI ‘intelligent’ assistants converge w virtual assistants across embodied technologies, with Big Tech advancing & accessing highly personal information - “deeper meaning”. We need to assess privacy concerns and socio-technical issues before adopting #ChatGPT.
2. A brand new, AI-powered Siri:. • New glowing light when you activate Siri (see below).• Talk naturally to Siri and it will understand everything you say.• It understands deeper meaning like who you your daughter is or where your office is located
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“The findings reveal a remarkable gap in safeguards against the use of AI-generated audio to mislead voters”. Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders | AP News
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A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of top...
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RT @mmitchell_ai: The final version of the approved EU AI Act even specifically recognizes model cards and datasheets: The work that me and….
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“This is going to require investing in three key pillars” the first is “AI education and literacy” @JoelBlit @lintool Opinion: Canada’s planned $2.4-billion artificial intelligence investment is already mostly obsolete @lesleywilton
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Ottawa announced a $2.4-billion AI strategy in its April budget; Meta will soon have $41-billion worth of computing power of its own
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