Digital Life Institute @DigLife3
Academic, international research partnership led by @ontariotech_u & U of Minnesota, TempleU, TexasTech, ConcordiaU, Director @isabel_pedersen #AIforSocialGood digitallife.org Joined November 2020-
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New publication by member Dr. Gustav Verhulsdonck! Augmenting User Experience Design with Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Study of Technical Communication Students: Technical Communication Quarterly tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Steering The Trojan Horse of Social Media: the use of human-centered AI in mitigating human trafficking online via Digital Life Institute digitallife.org/steering-the-t…
Thank you to everyone who joined us for "I Get You”: Empathy, Rhetoric, & the Design of AI Assistants. We were pleased to welcome guest speaker, Professor @isabel_pedersen from @ontariotech_u #sfuenglish
With advancements like artificial intelligence and automation reshaping societal norms, Dr. @isabel_pedersen and the @DigLife3 are focused on how we should use #TechWithAConscience. news.ontariotechu.ca/archives/2025/…
“The companies that control our digital lives have a monopoly on the data needed to understand the implications of their products, and AI is no exception.” writes @taylor_owen Opinion: AI can be a threat to children’s lives. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built theconversation.com/ai-affects-eve… via @ConversationEDU
Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/16/bus…
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
New post by @ontariotech_u grad student @TeresaGoff31160! “as we approach the end of 2024, the alignment of immersive journalism w/ traditional news values and its ethical implications are critical areas of examination” Exploring Immersive Journalism digitallife.org/exploring-imme…
“California was poised to become a standard-bearer for regulating a technology that has exploded into public consciousness with the release of chatbots and realistic image and video generators in recent years” @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/09/29/tec…
Great event last night, AI Killed the Radio Star Again. Thank you to @iameddyjones, @iamdavidneale, @iamelev8, Will from Kop's Records, @delon_om and @isabel_pedersen of @DigLife3.
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport: “it would likely be a kind of metadata tag that accompanies photos & would be different from watermarking, a practice in which a signal is embedded into an image that identifies it as generated by AI” @jdcapelouto
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital & Transport: “it would likely be a kind of metadata tag that accompanies photos & would be different from watermarking, a practice in which a signal is embedded into an image that identifies it as generated by AI” @jdcapelouto
AI companies lose bid to dismiss parts of visual artists' copyright case reuters.com/legal/litigati…

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