Getting ID after exiting prison is harder than you might think. So we built a chatbot to help
oatawa/ShutterstockGetting out of prison is often assumed to be cause for celebration and a new beginning. However, many women exiting...
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Artificial intelligence may take your job. Some lessons from my grandmother
Siblings on the way to school My grandmother, Claire Hastings, was born in the 1920s on a farm in Armidale,...
Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that’s a problem for all of us
sdecoret/ShutterstockArtificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than just a buzzword nowadays. It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation...
Canada can better prepare to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies
A photo of the last truck to be assembled on the General Motors production line, shown at a sports bar...
The future of work will hit vulnerable people the hardest
People living with disabilities, youth, LGBTQ2 people, Indigenous people, certain racialized minorities, immigrants and those with low socioeconomic status, as...
Curious Kids: which is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?
Blue whales and orcas are both specialists in their own way. You can't really measure which one is more intelligent....
Why women’s voices are missing from the future of work debate
Shutterstock/PrazizImagesThe business of prophesying the future of work has a gender problem. Admittedly, some of the scenarios around automation predict...
Australia is facing a looming cyber emergency, and we don’t have the high-tech workforce to counter it
Nick Warner, the new director general of the Office of National Intelligence, has sounded the alarm about Australia's lack of...
Revisiting metadata retention in light of the government’s push for new powers
Despite its enormous cost, the metadata retention scheme wasn’t future-proof. ShutterstockThe Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus Taylor, foreshadowed...
Robots are playing many roles in the coronavirus crisis – and offering lessons for future disasters
A nurse (left) operates a robot used to interact remotely with coronavirus patients while a physician looks on. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP...
