Teaching Resources
Foundational Course: Politics of Digital Technologies
13-week undergraduate course that explores the social impacts & policy implications of a broad range of digital technologies, including computer software and hardware, social media, crypto, AI, and VR.
- Politics of Digital Technologies – Syllabus
- Politics of Digital Technologies – Supplementary Reading List
Seminar: Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence
12-week seminar-style graduate course surveying a broad range theoretical, practical, and critical perspectives on AI ethics & AI governance.
- Ethics & Governance of AI – Syllabus
- Ethics & Governance of AI – Supplementary Reading List
- Ethics & Governance of AI – Lecture Slides
Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Policy
6-week workshop-style course intended to rapidly cultivate knowledge of AI-related issues and policy development skills for an interdisciplinary group of graduate students.
- AI Policy Workshop – Syllabus
- AI Policy Workshop – Supplementary Reading List
- AI Policy Workshop – Lecture Slides
Guest Lectures, Seminars, & Public Talks
Annotated slides from guest lectures, professional seminars, & public talks I’ve delivered.
- Transing AI Governance (December 2025)
- AI Governance in Canada: Power, participation, & limitations (November 2025)
- Rethinking AI Governance: Justice, Sustainability, and the Future of AI (September 2024)
- Canada’s AI Governance System (April 2024)
- AI Countergovernance: Opposing AI Governance in Theory & Practice (March 2024)
- AI Countergovernance Futures (March 2024)
- Framework Design for AI Governance Research (November 2023)
- The Governance of AI Systems (September 2023)
- Research Ethics Planning as Reflective Practice (April 2023)
- Moral Dilemmas in Data Science (March 2023)
- The Ethics of AI Value Chains: Implications for Practice & Policy (December 2022)
- AI Governance & Worker Protections in Canada (October 2022)
Records & Data
Dataset: Canada’s national AI governance system (2024)
Anonymized aggregate data from interviews with 20 government leaders and subject matter experts. Data was collected from February 2023 to July 2023. The dataset contains 610 topics that collectively represent the most significant components of Canada’s national AI governance system that emerged over the course of the interviews.
Dataset: Canadian AI governance initiatives from 2017-2022 (2023)
Aggregate data from a review of 84 Canadian AI governance initiatives launched from 2017-2022. Data was primarily collected from January 2022 to March 2022, with supplementary data added from March 2022 to December 2022. The dataset categorizes federal and provincial initiatives into 5 intervention types and 8 governance areas to determine Canada’s AI governance priorities and gaps.
Access to Information Request: Canadian AI legislation (2023)
Records received in response to an Access to Information Act (ATIA) request to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) in March 2023.
The inventory and release package contain records about the drafting of Canada’s proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act.
- Inventory of Records
- Full Release Package (328 pages, 17.3MB)
Access to Information Request: Shared Services Canada AI Program & AI Centre of Excellence (2023)
Records received in response to an Access to Information Act (ATIA) request to Shared Services Canada (SSC) in March 2023.
The inventory and release package contain records about the SSC Artificial Intelligence Program and AI Centre of Excellence.
- Inventory of Records
- Full Release Package (1152 pages, 112MB)
Last updated May 11, 2026