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Did you miss Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2026? If you're in Canada, this long weekend is a perfect chance to catch up. 🍂
All five sessions are now available to watch on SRI's YouTube channel.
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ALT Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2026 held at the University of Toronto on May 13, 2026.
Can AI Agents Have Emotions?
That's the question @davidchalmers42 will tackle in a keynote for The Human Variable: Psychology for the AI Age on October 28.
🔗Register from the livestreamed keynote talk here: tinyurl.com/human-variable
A new @UofTCompSci project, led by @ishtiaqueSIA , is exploring how culturally grounded AI can help address mental health care needs in Bangladesh.
Learn More: uoft.me/cKR
What does a Fields Medallist see as the next great challenge? For @Jacob_Tsimerman, it’s building mathematical foundations for AI safety.
Tsimerman sat down with SRI’s @DavidDuvenaud at U of T to discuss what could come next for math, AI, and society.
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Did you miss Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2026? If you're in Canada, this long weekend is a perfect chance to catch up. 🍂
All five sessions are now available to watch on SRI's YouTube channel.
🎥piped.video/4nEvyxt4330?si=NQm2…
ALT Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2026 held at the University of Toronto on May 13, 2026.
SRI Associate Director @SheilaMcIlraith and co-author Tran Cao Son were recently recognized with a Test of Time Award at the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR).
Learn more: uoft.me/cIl
Professor Sheila McIlraith's influential 2002 research on intelligent agents recently received a Test of Time Award from the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR).
Learn more: uoft.me/cIn
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What happens to human psychological wellness when we turn to machines for comfort & love?
Join us at The Human Variable: Psychology for the AI Age, hosted by @minzlicht & @AnatPerry & featuring @davidchalmers42.
📅 Oct. 28 | 9 AM – 5 PM ET
📍 Toronto
🔗 uoft.me/cHF
ALT Join the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society for The Human Variable: Psychology for the AI Age, a one-day conference convened by Michael Inzlicht that brings together leading researchers from psychology, philosophy, and computer science to examine what the human mind can tell us about AI, and what AI can tell us about the human mind.
SRI is partnering with @UofTCompSci & @VectorInst for “Conversations in Computing,” a series exploring key questions at the intersection of technology & society. Join SRI visiting fellow Bruce Schneier for our 1st event, “Hacking AI” on Oct. 22.
Register: bit.ly/cic-oct-22
One season. Many conversations. This is Conversations in Computing.
Oct. 22: Bruce Schneier presents “Hacking AI,” exploring how AI can find & exploit vulnerabilities across economic, political & social systems. With @VectorInst and @TorontoSRI. Register: bit.ly/cic-oct-22
ALT Promotional graphic for the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science's Conversations in Computing series. The graphic features a portrait of Bruce Schneier alongside the title “Bruce Schneier on Hacking AI.” Event details read: Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street, Toronto. A yellow “Register Now” button appears beside the portrait. University of Toronto Computer Science, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and Vector Institute logos appear at the bottom.
Canada could require every AI system to publish detailed documentation tomorrow and be no better able to govern AI than it is today. Disclosure that reaches no one able to act on it isn't transparency. It's paperwork.
SRI's 9 recommendations to @ISED_CA: uoft.me/cH9
What happens to the law when legal expertise is no longer scarce?
Ben Alarie (@BlueJLegal, @UofTJackmanLaw) discusses Superjustice, his new book with Samuel Becher, on how AI could bring "legal abundance"—and why humans should stay in the loop.
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ALT SRI Faculty Affiliate Benjamin Alarie’s new book, co-authored with Samuel Becher, argues that AI could move legal systems from scarcity to abundance. In conversation with SRI, he discusses personalized law, what must stay human in a courtroom, and why he believes legal scholarship has tilted too far toward pessimism.
Helen Nissenbaum (@Cornell), one of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of technology, ethics, and society, is the opening talk of our SRI Seminar Series Fall 2026!
📅 September 23, 2026
🕧 12:30–2:00 p.m. ET
📍 Online
🔗 Register: uoft.me/cG4
ALT The SRI Seminar Series welcomes Helen Nissenbaum, the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech.
ALT Join Samir Chhabra (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), Kathryn Hume (Vector Institute), Alexandra Posadzki (The Globe and Mail), and University of Toronto's Avi Goldfarb and Nicolas Papernot in-person on 10 September for a discussion on AI-powered threats and Canada's future.