The Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab
Transforming engineering practice and policymaking through transdisciplinary research on the sociotechnical and ethical aspects of robotics and AI
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At CRAiEDL, we bridge the worlds of ethics, engineering design, and policy with practical research aimed at supporting responsible robotics and AI development, deployment, and governance.
Robotics and AI Policy
CRAiEDL STEAM Collective
Ethical Design Tools
Automated Mobility
Healthcare Robotics and AI
Autonomous Weapons Systems
Latest CRAiEDL Activity
Documentary Screening: AI Gone Wild
Join the CRAiEDL Student AI Policy Network’s inaugural event: a screening of the Netflix documentary AI Gone Wild and a discussion of the Hugging Face incident’s implications for policy.
We Have Failed Our First Collective AI Safety Challenge
Let’s take a moment to recap the recent AI Safety headlines:
The Role of Art in Challenging Digital Urbanism
An interactive research-creation piece tracing Situationist ideas about urbanism, psychogeography, and walking into a critique of the digital mapping platforms we navigate cities with today.
The Government of Canada falls short on its claims it used AI responsibly in its National AI Strategy Public Consultation
I used an LLM to analyze the Government of Canada's recently released "What We Heard" report. The conclusions it reached suggest more transparency and honesty are required if the government wants their use of AI to be trustworthy, and to convince Canadians they are being heard. Read more at the link below.
Secure AI Is Not Safe AI
If Canada wants safe AI, focusing on AI security won't deliver.
People as Packets in the Age of Algorithmic Mobility Shaping
Turn-by-turn navigation is quietly laying the foundation for algorithmically controlled mobility systems, and whoever controls the routing algorithms gains de facto control over people's mobility rights: who gets access to mobility, on what terms, and who bears its benefits and risks. This chapter calls that power "mobility shaping" and argues that it raises questions familiar from the net neutrality debate. Drawing on the distinction between permissible and forbidden discrimination, deep packet inspection, and the legal idea of common carriage, it examines how blocking, zero-rating and throttling could reappear on our roads. It then sketches an ethics of mobility shaping centred on the just distribution of mobility benefits and harms, the preservation of individual and collective mobility decision-making, and the digital enclosure of public roads.
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