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<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Artificial intelligence presents new opportunities to strengthen democracy even as it threatens to cast a shadow over election integrity and further the spread of misinformation.</p>
<p>In the fifth episode of What Now? AI, University of Toronto hosts <strong>Beth Coleman</strong> and <strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> are joined by experts <strong>Harper Reed</strong> and <strong>Peter Loewen</strong>, who is also from U of T, to explore the impact of AI on the political realm. </p>
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<p>Loewen, director of U of T鈥檚 Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and a professor in the department of political science in the Faculty of Arts & Science, explains how AI removes the human touch from politics, potentially making the public uneasy.</p>
<p>鈥淲e still don't like the fact that it might be a machine that we're talking to,鈥� said Loewen, who is also the associate director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.</p>
<p>鈥淏ut then if you layer on this dimension of not knowing if this is actually the campaign that鈥檚 doing it, I think that鈥檚 probably orders of magnitude worse because what it does is it takes us from the realm of kind of feeling uneasy about something into feeling like this thing is corrupted.鈥�</p>
<p>Reed, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-obama-campaign-microtargeting/" target="_blank">spoke about his experience</a> as the chief technology officer on former U.S. president Barack Obama鈥檚 re-election campaign in 2012.</p>
<p>鈥淭he technology we built was not about convincing someone at the time that Mitt Romney was a bad person or a good person,鈥� said Reed during a conversation with Coleman about AI and democracy that was filmed live at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society鈥檚 annual conference <a href="https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/" target="_blank">Absolutely Interdisciplinary</a>, a portion of which was used in the podcast episode.</p>
<p>鈥淭he tech was more about making sure you got to vote.鈥�</p>
<p>When asked about the biggest threats to AI and democracy, Reed emphasized that he is less worried about the technology itself and more with ensuring it鈥檚 beneficial to societal use. </p>
<p>鈥淚鈥檓 worried about who has access to it and how they are using it.鈥�</p>
<h4>About the hosts: </h4>
<p><strong>Beth Coleman</strong> is an associate professor at U of T Mississauga鈥檚 <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/" target="_blank">Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology</a> and the Faculty of Information. She is also a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the <a href="https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society</a>. Coleman authored <a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/" target="_blank"><em>Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds</em></a> using art and generative AI. </p>
<p><strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> is an assistant professor in U of T鈥檚 department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is a Canada CIFAR Chair at the Vector Institute, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the <a href="https://tcairem.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)</a>. </p>
<p><em>Note: The artwork in the background of Peter Loewen鈥檚 interview belong to the Mirvish Family鈥檚 private collection. The large image, titled Floating Free, is by K.M. Graham. The smaller image is untitled and by the same artist.</em></p>
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Thu, 23 May 2024 19:33:08 +0000mattimar307908 at What Now? AI, Episode 4: AI and Creativity
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<p>Writing tools like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E have exploded into the mainstream. Adobe built its own version of generative AI technology for its creative suites and OpenAI announced its text-to-video model, Sora. </p>
<p>What impact will these tools and models have on the creative process? How will they change the role of an artist? </p>
<p>In the fourth episode of <em>What Now? AI</em>, hosts <strong>Beth Coleman</strong> and <strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> dive into these questions with AI researchers <strong>Sanja Fidler</strong> of the University of Toronto and <strong>Nick Frosst</strong>, who co-founded the startup <a href="https://cohere.com" target="_blank">Cohere</a>.</p>
<p>Listen to episode four on鈥� <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-ai/id1635579922" target="_blank">Apple</a>,<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6E0YlC5Sw59q7Al5UAWOP8?si=795f1fa38c2b4812" target="_blank">鈥疭potify</a>,鈥�<a href="https://soundcloud.com/universityoftoronto" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a>,鈥�<a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-what-now-ai-99641114/" target="_blank">iHeartRadio</a>鈥痑nd鈥�<a href="https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/60a0653e-3cd0-410e-b270-2582480b991a/what-now-ai" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Watch鈥痚pisode four on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZdGvaE0uIw">YouTube</a>.鈥� </p>
<p>Fidler, the vice president of AI research at NVIDIA and an associate professor of mathematical and computational sciences at U of T Mississauga, says that while AI technology is still in its early stage, it has the potential to provide artists with more adaptability and creative control. </p>
<p>鈥淲hen artists see these methods like text-to-x, text-to-image or text-to-video, I feel that they have pushback because now there is only text that allows you to control the content,鈥� says Fidler, an affiliate faculty member at the Vector Institute, which she co-founded. </p>
<p>鈥淚 think artists do want to have this iterative creative control. They have some idea in their head, and they have all these tools that allowed them to go from that idea into the final product. We want to do the same thing with AI as well.鈥� </p>
<p>Frosst, who sings in the band Good Kid, says he doesn鈥檛 use large language models to help him write songs 鈥� only to help analyze lyrics and themes. </p>
<p>鈥淚鈥檓 not really looking to optimize my artistic expression,鈥� says Frosst, who completed his undergraduate degree in computer science and cognitive science at U of T. </p>
<p>鈥淚 don鈥檛 really want to write a new Good Kid song and be less involved. I want to be more involved.鈥� </p>
<p>Frosst believes AI will change the way art is created, but not to the point where people aren鈥檛 interested in the artists who are making it. </p>
<p>鈥淲e want to know who made it, and that鈥檚 mostly what鈥檚 enjoyable about it.鈥� </p>
<p><strong>About the hosts: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Beth Coleman</strong> is an associate professor at U of T Mississauga鈥檚 <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/" target="_blank">Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology</a> and the Faculty of Information. She is also a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the <a href="https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society</a>. Coleman authored <a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/" target="_blank"><em>Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds</em></a> using art and generative AI. </p>
<p><strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> is an assistant professor in U of T鈥檚 department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is a Canada CIFAR Chair at the Vector Institute, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the <a href="https://tcairem.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)</a>. </p>
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Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:22:39 +0000mattimar307603 at What Now? AI, Episode 3: Innovation for Good
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<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>While the news headlines about AI often focus on dangers and risks, the potential for life-saving innovation in fields such as health care is huge.</p>
<p>In the third episode of What Now? AI, co-hosts <strong>Beth Coleman</strong> and <strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> of the University of Toronto are joined by experts <strong>Christine Allen</strong> and <strong>Andrew Pinto</strong> to discuss AI鈥檚 potential to advance drug development and dramatically improve primary care. </p>
<p>Listen to episode three on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-ai/id1635579922" target="_blank">Apple</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6E0YlC5Sw59q7Al5UAWOP8?si=795f1fa38c2b4812" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/universityoftoronto" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a>, <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-what-now-ai-99641114/" target="_blank">iHeartRadio</a> and <a href="https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/60a0653e-3cd0-410e-b270-2582480b991a/what-now-ai" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/Pq8hrKLBIjM?si=ds5TrkR8DMc5VZq_" target="_blank">episode three on YouTube</a>. </p>
<p>Allen, a professor in U of T鈥檚 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and an expert in drug formulation and development, co-founded<a href="https://intrepidlabs.tech/" target="_blank"> Intrepid Labs Inc.</a> with <strong>Al谩n Aspuru-Guzik</strong>, a professor in the departments of chemistry and computer science in U of T鈥檚 Faculty of Arts & Science. </p>
<p>One of the first startups to emerge from the <a href="https://acceleration.utoronto.ca/">Acceleration Consortium</a> at U of T, Intrepid Labs is accelerating pharmaceutical drug development through the integration of AI, automation and advanced computing.</p>
<p>鈥淚t鈥檚 this concept of using AI to explore the unexplored,鈥� Allen says. </p>
<p>鈥淲hat if that formulation could really transform the properties and performance of your drug is one of those unexplored formulations. That will then take that drug through clinical development smoothly and get it to patients faster, which is really the goal.鈥�</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Pinto, a family physician at St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital and director of the <a href="https://upstreamlab.org/" target="_blank">Upstream Lab</a>, Unity Health Toronto, focuses his research on addressing the social determinants of health by running clinical trials of interventions and using AI tools for surveillance of respiratory illness. </p>
<p>鈥淲hen we started to do this work around AI in primary care, we wanted to be directed by primary care providers and patients,鈥� says Pinto, an associate professor in the department of family and community medicine in U of T鈥檚 Temerty Faculty of Medicine and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. </p>
<p>Reducing health-care inequities is top of mind for Pinto. His lab focuses on implementing AI to prioritize community engagement and bridge socioeconomic gaps to mitigate biases. </p>
<p>鈥淲e鈥檙e using these tools to look at all of the patients in a population and then focus our attention on the people who need it most.鈥� </p>
<h4>About the hosts: </h4>
<p><strong>Beth Coleman</strong> is an associate professor at U of T Mississauga鈥檚 <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/" target="_blank">Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology</a> and the Faculty of Information. She is also a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the<a href="http://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank"> Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society</a>. Coleman authored <a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/" target="_blank"><em>Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds</em></a> using art and generative AI. </p>
<p><strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> is an assistant professor in U of T鈥檚 department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is a Canada CIFAR Chair at the Vector Institute, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the <a href="https://tcairem.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine</a> (T-CAIREM). </p>
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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:47:11 +0000Christopher.Sorensen307507 at What Now? AI,聽Episode 2: Safe and Accountable聽
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<p>In the second episode of What Now? AI, hosts <strong>Beth Coleman</strong> and <strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> are joined by University of Toronto experts <strong>Gillian Hadfield</strong> and <strong>Roger Grosse</strong> as they tackle critical questions surrounding AI safety, regulation and alignment. </p>
<p>Listen to episode two on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-ai/id1635579922" target="_blank">Apple</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6E0YlC5Sw59q7Al5UAWOP8?si=02e00e2d81bf4a44&nd=1&dlsi=6bdd4d9b9cc147b5" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/universityoftoronto" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a>, <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-what-now-ai-99641114/">iHeartRadio</a> and <a href="https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/60a0653e-3cd0-410e-b270-2582480b991a/what-now-ai" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/QDVlINfID_M?si=Kqz4MzFyh9asImYI" target="_blank">episode two on YouTube</a>. </p>
<p>Grosse, an associate professor of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and a founding member of the <a href="http://vectorinstitute.ai">Vector Institute</a>, joined the technical staff on the alignment team at Anthropic, an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco, during a sabbatical last year.</p>
<p>He calls working on AI research and systems while investigating safety a 鈥渄ifficult needle to thread.鈥� </p>
<p>鈥淎s you move up the ladder of different AI capabilities, new requirements start kicking in 鈥� in terms of keeping the models secure from bad actors and being able to make sure they won鈥檛 intentionally carry out harmful plans,鈥� says Grosse, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.</p>
<p>Hadfield, a professor of law and strategic management in the Faculty of Law and the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, has <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/07/12/it-s-time-to-create-national-registry-for-large-ai-models-pub-90180" target="_blank">proposed a national registry for large AI models</a>. She thinks companies should disclose to governments what they鈥檙e building, the data being used and the AI model鈥檚 capabilities. </p>
<p>鈥淭his is a unique moment in human history,鈥� says Hadfield, who holds a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for AI and served as a senior policy adviser to OpenAI from 2018 to 2023. 鈥淚 think this is the first time that you have such a powerful technology that is being developed almost exclusively within private technology companies, so the public and the academic sector don鈥檛 have full visibility into how the technology is working.鈥� </p>
<h4>About the hosts: </h4>
<p>Beth Coleman is an associate professor at U of T Mississauga鈥檚 <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/">Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology</a> and the Faculty of Information. She is also a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the <a href="http://srinstitute.utoronto.ca">Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society</a>. Coleman authored <a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/"><em>Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds</em></a> using art and generative AI. </p>
<p>Rahul Krishnan is an assistant professor in U of T鈥檚 department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is a Canada CIFAR Chair at the Vector Institute, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the <a href="https://tcairem.utoronto.ca">Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine</a> (T-CAIREM). </p>
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<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are posing profound questions about the future 鈥� and about us. </p>
<p>Can we ensure safety and alignment within AI systems? How might AI forever transform fields like health care? What ripple effects could AI have on jobs and livelihoods, including in creative industries? </p>
<p>University of Toronto researchers <strong>Beth Coleman</strong> and <strong>Rahul Krishnan</strong> explore 鈥� and demystify 鈥� these and other topics by tapping into the knowledge of leading AI experts in <a href="/podcasts"><em>What Now? AI</em>, a new U of T podcast</a> that launches this week.</p>
<p>It can be found on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-ai/id1635579922">Apple</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6E0YlC5Sw59q7Al5UAWOP8?si=27816b6818604d42" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/universityoftoronto" target="_blank">Soundcloud,</a> <span style="font-size:inherit"><a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-what-now-99641114/" target="_blank">iHeartRadio</a> </span>and <a href="https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/60a0653e-3cd0-410e-b270-2582480b991a/what-now-ai" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>
<p>An associate professor at U of T Mississauga鈥檚 Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and the Faculty of Information, Coleman says she hopes the episodes help audiences make sense of new AI tools and systems by cutting through 鈥渁ll the noisiness and controversy that has taken over the headlines.鈥�</p>
<p>鈥淚t can be complex and technical, but it鈥檚 also social,鈥� says Coleman, a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society. </p>
<p>鈥淲hat we do with AI makes a difference and more people need to be able to share that knowledge.鈥� </p>
<p>Coleman鈥檚 own research centres around technology and society with a focus on data and cities, AI and policy, and generative arts. Inspired by Octavia Butler鈥檚 1980 <em>Xenogenesis</em> trilogy, Coleman authored <em><a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/" target="_blank">Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI </a>and Other Possible Worlds</em> using art and generative AI. </p>
<p>Krishnan, meanwhile, is an assistant professor in U of T鈥檚 department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. A Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute and Canada Research Chair in computational medicine, Krishnan and his team focus on teaching neural networks about causality, building deep learning models that analyze cause and effect from data. </p>
<p>鈥淚鈥檓 excited to co-host this podcast to explore and demystify for a broader audience AI through the lens of an accomplished and diverse set of experts,鈥� says Krishnan, who is also a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM). </p>
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<p><em>What Now? AI </em>picks up where the conversation started last year by Geoffrey Hinton, the cognitive psychologist and <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor</a> emeritus of computer science who is known as the 鈥淕odfather of AI.鈥� After a lifetime spent developing a type of AI known as deep learning, Hinton stepped back from his role at Google <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cW4Gcn5WY">to warn about the existential threats of unchecked AI development</a>.</p>
<p>Since then, there have been ongoing advancements in AI research, technological applications and policy development.</p>
<p>Coleman and Krishnan will tackle these and other topics with guests: </p>
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<li><strong>Gillian Hadfield</strong>, professor of law and strategic management at the Faculty of Law and the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society. </li>
<li><strong>Roger Grosse</strong>, associate professor of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and founding member of the Vector Institute. </li>
<li><strong>Christine Allen</strong>, professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and co-founder and CEO of Intrepid Labs Inc.</li>
<li><strong>Andrew Pinto</strong>, a family physician at St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and associate professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. </li>
<li><strong>Nick Frosst</strong>, co-founder of Cohere, singer in Good Kid band and a U of T computer science and cognitive science alumnus. </li>
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<p>鈥淭he <em>What Now? AI</em> podcast highlights the incredible researchers at the University of Toronto who are exploring the profound implications of this transformative technology,鈥� says <strong>Leah Cowen</strong>, U of T鈥檚 vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. 鈥淭hese discussions tackle critical questions surrounding AI safety and alignment and its myriad implications across various domains. </p>
<p>鈥淭he university is committed to fostering informed discussions that will shape our collective understanding of AI鈥檚 role in our society and in our future.鈥� </p>
<p>Coleman says she hopes listeners come away from the podcast feeling more grounded.</p>
<p>Krishnan, for his part, wants the audience to understand 鈥渢hat there is no one group that has ownership鈥� over the technology鈥� and that 鈥渢he free exchange of ideas and open-source tools encourage people from all disciplines to come see how accessible AI can be, what AI can do for them and how they can advance the discourse in the field.鈥� </p>
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