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SUMMARY:Create Me\, Break Me\, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention
DESCRIPTION:Isabel Pedersen will present the Fourth Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture @ Concordia. She focuses on embodied computing\, algorithmic culture\, augmented reality\, emergent media\, and AI ethics. Her talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students. \nThe live event will take place at Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\, Concordia University\, 1515 St. Catherine’s Street W.\, Montréal. The event will also be streamed (click More Information for advance registration). \n 
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/create-me-break-me-remember-me-art-and-ai-in-an-age-of-reinvention/
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SUMMARY:"I Get You": Empathy\, Rhetoric\, & the Design of AI Assistants
DESCRIPTION:Isabel Pedersen presents: The goal to achieve novel AI systems has been ignited by an urgent commercial preoccupation with making emotionally engaged\, empathetic AI assistants. The promise of empathy offers the alluring condition of being known by another\, when someone simply “gets you.” Inventors work to embed the appearance of emotional signs in functional AI applications through meaning-making systems that mimic interpersonal communication. However\, how do we come to terms with the ethical conundrum of artificial empathy? Is anthropomorphized AI leading to deceptive\, destructive systems or the possibility of beneficial\, creative\, dialogic exchanges with artificial agents? \n 
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/i-get-you-empathy-rhetoric-the-design-of-ai-assistants/
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SUMMARY:“Decoding the brain’s own language”: Brain implants\, neurorights\, and the corporate race to decode thought
DESCRIPTION:Isabel Pedersen will present at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association. \nPrecision Neuroscience\, Synchron\, Neuralink\, and Paradromics are racing to develop brain implants for many applications including therapeutic use\, cognitive enhancement\, and for general\, ‘everyday’ communication. The Paradromics website\, for example\, claims “we will continue to expand the capabilities of our massively scalable platform to support a pipeline of future applications that could benefit millions”. Precision Neuroscience celebrates the concept of “decoding the brain’s own language” (Vimeo\, 2024). Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been approved for clinical trials in Canada (Reuters\, 2024). \nThis presentation questions and explores how ‘neurorights’ can be established as these technologies evolve at an unprecedented pace and offer advancements due to the decoding of neurodata.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/decoding-the-brains-own-language-brain-implants-neurorights-and-the-corporate-race-to-decode-thought/
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SUMMARY:2025 Teaching With AI Conference
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lesley Wilton is the keynote speaker at the 2025 Teaching With AI Conference. \nRapidly evolving as a general-purpose technology\, AI is increasingly enmeshed in formal and informal learning environments. Meaningfully integrating AI into teaching and learning requires understandings of what AI is\, what it does and what pedagogies (including AI pedagogies) best benefit learners. Troubling our thinking is: what are we teaching? and how?—and what is the role of AI? We are guided by societal and educational frameworks. Educators have a wide range of technical backgrounds–from little technical understanding to AI experts. In context\, technology transience highlights the importance of AI Literacy. Evolving frameworks\, such as UNESCOs\, are important in navigating both our understandings of teaching with AI and of how learners use AI for learning. AI systems are complex\, so the promise of agreed-upon descriptive structures (e.g. consistent model-card type information for each AI tool) may help educators better understand what an AI system actually does and identify its educational value. Responsible use of AI requires us to think critically and to consider the inherent risks of safety\, privacy\, data collection\, bias\, explainability and more. This keynote will guide staying the course toward learning as we navigate the uncharted waters of the WHAT and WHY of AI in education. \nClick here to view the program.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/2025-teaching-with-ai-conference/
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SUMMARY:CPTSC 2025 Annual Conference + SIGDOC 2025
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Campbell\, Katlynne Davis\, Jialei Jiang (online)\, Nupoor Ranade (online)\, Mollie Stambler\, Jason Tham\, and Gustav Verhulsdonck are all presenting at the CPTSC 2025 Annual Conference + SIGDOC 2025\, October 23–25\, Texas Tech University in Lubbock\, Texas.
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/cptsc-2025-annual-conference-sigdoc-2025/
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SUMMARY:Navigating AIED in Context
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this speaking event featuring top AI in Education (AIED) researchers! \nProgram: \nWelcome & Introductions – Lesley Wilton\, OISE\, University of Toronto \, Chair\, AIED Cluster \nApplications of AI: A Taxonomy\, Stephen Downes\, Senior Research Officer Digital Technologies\, National Research Council Canada \nExploring Vibe Coding Practices in Computer Science Education\, Rutwa Engineer\, University of Toronto \nMultilingual data collection\, Annie En-Shiun Lee\, Ontario Tech University \nFlying the plane while it’s under construction – AI Literacy\, Lesley Wilton \nModerator: Isabel Pedersen\, Ontario Tech University \nZoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7203067407
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/navigating-aied-in-context/
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SUMMARY:What is Digital Literacy Today & Why Does It Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nKatlynne Davis\, Assistant Professor in Professional Writing in the College of Arts and Sciences\, University of St. Thomas \nJason Tham\, Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Texas Tech University \nGustav Verhulsdonck\, Assistant Professor in Business Information Systems\, Central Michigan University. \nJialei Jiang\, Assistant Professor of Writing in the Department of English\, University of Pittsburgh \nDaniel L. Hocutt\, School of Professional & Continuing Studies\, University of Richmond \nModerator: \nIsabel Pedersen\, Ontario Tech University \nOpen to everyone. \nZoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7203067407
URL:https://www.digitallife.org/event/what-is-digital-literacy-today-why-does-it-matter/
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