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I'm gathering more accessible bits and pieces of my work here.

Recent and Upcoming Talks and Events

In Winter 2026 I was selected to participate in the tri-council "Artificial Intelligence Humanities Sandpit" in Montreal, part of the Doing AI Differently initiative based at The Alan Turing Institute and The University of Edinburgh.

In December I presented a talk at the Global Government Forum AccelerateGOV 2025 conference on public service standards for the use of AI in decisionmaking.

In October I gave a talk at UNB's Research Institute in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RIDSAI) Symposium titled: "AI in HR Tech: Responsible innovation and competitive dynamics, a case study navigating market demands for fraud detection". I argue that a hype-driven market for AI capabilities can create something very much like Akerlof's market for lemons, where information asymmetry leads to adverse selection. This suggests a new line of thinking about policy to support responsible innovation.

Writing

A short post on applicant fraud and why employers should be careful about identity verification tools that share state across customers: "Be careful about ID verification as a solution to applicant fraud"

Some of my research on influence and manipulation in social media has been relevant to the US policy debate on TikTok. I recently wrote a short piece for The Conversation: the American TikTok deal doesn't address the platform's potential for manipulation, only who profits

During the January 2025 Canadian federal election campaign, I wrote about the role of social media platforms in shaping political discourse.

Here's the piece: the risks of misinformation during the 2025 Canadian election

And some related audio:

I have a retrospective in progress "The Disinformation Election That Wasn't?" which I'll post soon

Video

A video of a recent talk I gave about living with AI.

I've also explored some of the same ideas in a brief article: "What humans soon can't do?"