Will Computers Decide Who Lives and Who Dies?
While talk about a post-COVID-19 world is ripe, reflecting more the desire for an economic relaunch than the medical reality of the...
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Covid-19 - an article from the early on-set
At the end of this tumultuous year, I like to revisit some things I wrote. This is an article from March 2020, and I think that some...
Trouble with Ethics
First appeared on Ms.AI blog Imagine you are a doctor in an emergency setting. A patient is brought in in critical state. Your immediate...
AI, Climate Change, and Healthcare.
Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the two main disrupting factors in today’s global economy, despite the fact that the...
The Unequal Human
The disruption that smart technology and AI bring is comparable in recent history with the first phases of industrialization. Social...
Stylish AI, Fashionable Healthcare. How Aesthetics Ease the Adoption of Innovative Technologies
Would you wear a device that monitors your health? What if the device is a fashionable ring or earring? Recently a team of designers,...
How do Smart Cities transform politics?
We live through an age of rapid techno-social transformations. Changes in technoscapes indicate also transformations of defining...
Do AI have sex? And why they should
What if our mind is just an (or THE) ornamental feature for sexual selection, as the beak of a toucan or the tail of a peacock? For some...
Pplkpr – in with the data, out with the people…
… or at least, out with those that provoke you discomfort, uneasiness, or high level of stress. A fascinating application described in...
Machine Anthropology
What could be AI/ or Machine Anthropology? The short answer: the sum of AI conversations about us, humans. As Anthropologist I am...
(A)I, Citizen
I live in Canada, one of the few countries that today prides itself with its political inclusion system, with its openness, and with its...
The Storyteller vs. the Narrative Generator
We are beings of narration. We tell stories to ourselves in order to remind us who we are. But who we are is forever changing, as stories...