Dr. Jennie Day is an interdisciplinary social scientist working as a Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL) with Dr. Jason Millar.
Her current research explores the socio-technical implications of engineers' and healthcare practitioners' future visions of AI-enabled smarthome monitoring technologies for older adults. The project’s purpose is to constructively shape the ethical design, development and deployment of these technologies in practice through the creation of bottom-up, evidence-based ethical frameworks and values-based ‘ethical engineering design requirements’.
Jennie completed her PhD at Newcastle University in the UK, where she examined the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sociodigital futures through the prism of autonomous vehicle (AV) emergence. Her research explores critical questions about the material power of AI imaginaries, algorithmic power and injustice, technological ontologies, democratic conceptions of the ‘public interest’, technological solutionism, and governance of sociodigital futures.