Can You Really Teach a Robot Empathy? This Roboticist Says Yes.
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Age Gates & AI: Minister Marc Miller on The Safe Social Media Act
When Marc Miller became Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, he inherited Ottawa’s oldest, unfinished file in tech policy: regulating...
Canada’s AI minister to Big Tech: “We Won’t be a Digital Colony’
“AI for All.” That’s what Canada’s federal government is calling its national AI strategy. It makes the case for building AI with confidence...
We Can Now Bet on Almost Anything. Should We?
Human beings have always loved to gamble. Archaeological records suggest we’ve been doing it for the last 12,000 years, since the end of the...
Social Media Bans Are Wildly Popular. They Might Also Be a Mistake.
Towards the end of last year, Australia did something no other country had ever tried: it banned social media for kids under 16. And a bunch...
Animals are Talking to Each Other. Can AI Help Us Understand Them?
The people running technology companies love to make wild predictions about the future. They’ve told us that artificial intelligence will cu...
Does 21st Century Politics Still Need Politicians?
When Prime Minister Mark Carney took the floor at the recent Liberal convention, he described a future where AI benefits all Canadians – not...
Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be
Four years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d been workin...
Why Did We Stop Talking About The AI Apocalypse?
Just a few years ago, it seemed like all anyone in AI wanted to talk about was existential risk – this idea that an artificial super intelli...
In the Wake of Tumbler Ridge, Can We Trade Privacy for Safety?
On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old opened fire at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., killing eight people before turning a gun on herself....
When Did Common Sense AI Policy Become Radical?
A couple of months ago, I joined the Canadian government’s AI strategy task force. Out of thirty members, I was one of only four focused on...
Bonus: Inside the New Social Media Platform for AI Agents
Scrolling through Moltbook , the new social-media platform for AI agents, is a bit like walking into a fever dream. There are threads where...
The Future According to Gen Z
No one has adopted artificial intelligence more enthusiastically than Gen Z. And not just to help with their homework. Half of American teen...
Is China Winning the Technological Arms Race?
If we don’t build it, China will. That’s the rallying cry of the tech companies and governments racing to develop artificial intelligence as...
Four Predictions on How AI Will Transform Your World This Year
Nine months ago, Elon Musk said 2025 would be the year chatbots became smarter than humans. Sam Altman thought it would be the year fully au...
The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
Jensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA CEO doesn’t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be...
Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?
It was an idea that defied logic: an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit. You didn’t need to have a PhD or even use your real name –...
Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
Over the last couple of years, massive AI investment has largely kept the stock market afloat. Case in point: the so-called Magnificent 7 –...
Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?
In Rutger Bregman’s first book, Utopia for Realists , the historian describes a rosy vision of the future – one with 15-hour work weeks, uni...
How to Survive the “Broligarchy”
At Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, the returning president made a striking break from tradition. The seats closest to the pre...