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Digital Life Institute @DigLife3

Academic, international research partnership led by @ontariotech_u & U of Minnesota, TempleU, TexasTech, ConcordiaU, Director @isabel_pedersen #AIforSocialGood

Joined November 2020
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Frontiers | AI agents, wearable computing and the future of postsecondary learning frontiersin.org/journals/edu…

Frontiers | AI agents, wearable computing and the future of postsecondary learning

AI and Technocultural Adaptation First, the effect of generative AI on the automation of writing, composition skills, and creative practices is still taking ...

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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.…

Augmenting User Experience Design with Multimodal Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Study of...

This qualitative study explores the integration of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, including FigJam AI and Figma AI plugins, into technical communication students’ desi...

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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…

Steering The Trojan Horse of Social Media: the use of human-centered AI in mitigating human...

The digital age features both the virtues and vices of connectivity, especially when analyzing how prominent human trafficking has grown as a result of the internet and social media. Human […]

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SFU English@SFUenglish
10 Mar 2025
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
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Ontario Tech University@ontariotech_u
26 Feb 2025
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/archive…

Navigating the digital frontier: Can AI-programmed empathy ever truly match real human empathy?

Dr. Isabel Pedersen, a Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, and Director of the Digital Life Institute highlights the rapid rise of AI tools, like GPT chatbots, which are...

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“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/…

Opinion: AI can be a threat to children’s lives. How can we build safeguards?

A Florida teenager allegedly took his own life because of an AI chatbot – a tragic reminder about the importance of risk-mitigating policy tools such as the Online Harms Act

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AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built theconversation.com/ai-affec… via @ConversationEDU

AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built

Unless AI developers start involving Indigenous people, their claims about the technology benefiting all of humanity will continue to ring hollow.

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Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/16/busin…

Hungry for Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft Turn to Nuclear Power (Published 2024)

Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.

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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
8 Oct 2024
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.”
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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-im…

Exploring Immersive Journalism: Fabric of Digital Life’s Embodied Narratives collection - Digital...

Immersive journalism employs Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to allow viewers to engage with news stories as if they were physically present, offering a new dimension to...

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“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/techn…

California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation (Published 2024)

The bill would have been the first in the nation to place strict guardrails on the new technology, but Gov. Gavin Newsom said the bill was flawed.

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Ontario Tech Social Science and Humanities@OT_FSSH
19 Sep 2024
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.
Will McGuirk, Eddy Jones, Isabel Pederson, Elev8, David Neale, Delon Omrow

ALT Will McGuirk, Eddy Jones, Isabel Pederson, Elev8, David Neale, Delon Omrow

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“Still, standardized tests are not always a good judge of how technologies will perform in real-world situations, and though the system might be good at a math test question, it could still struggle to teach math” ⁦@CadeMetz⁩ OpenAI Unveils o1 Model nytimes.com/2024/09/12/techn…

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“On the qualifying exam for the International Mathematical Olympiad, or I.M.O. — the premier math competition for high schoolers — its previous technology scored 13 percent. OpenAI o1, the company said, scored 83 percent.” @CadeMetz
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New AI models @OpenAI that will change work and education.
OpenAI
@OpenAI
12 Sep 2024
We're releasing a preview of OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math. openai.com/index/introducing…
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Join us for an AI & culture event, Sept 18, 2024 in #Oshawa w Dr. @delon_om & hip hop artists: @iamelev8 Eddy Jones, David Neale! AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop Bond St. Event Centre, 44 Bond St E 5-7PM @OT_FSSH events.humanitix.com/ai-kill…

AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop

Get tickets on Humanitix - AI Killed The Radio Star Again: Creativity, Culture and AI in Hip Hop. Find event information.

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We wish to thank our sponsors, the Carpenters Union Local 397, @ontariotech_u Faculty of Social Science & Humanities @OT_FSSH @SSHRC_CRSH @DigLife3 for their support of this research and community-based event.
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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
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29 Aug 2024
🇩🇪🇪🇺 SCOOP: German digital policy officials are holding (very early) talks on ways to push social media platforms to add image authentication tools that could differentiate between real and fake photos semafor.com/article/08/29/20…
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How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important interview with Michael Running Wolf for @CBC cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ai-in…

How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important | CBC News

Indigenous language experts working in computer science say AI can be a useful tool in language revitalization but communities must prioritize the ownership of their data.

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CBC article by journalist and filmmaker Candace Maracle
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