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Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots

Join us to watch and discuss a performance of Karel Čapek's (1920) play "Rossum's Universal Robots," the work that introduced the word and concept of "robot" to the world.  

When robots rise up, will humanity fall?

See you on November 10 at 7pm in E5 6006.  Free admittance & free popcorn!

This performance is a presentation of Battle Damage Theater.

Friday, October 28, 2022 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Misinformation: AI for evil and for good

Join us via zoom on Friday, October 28, 12 pm - 1:30 pm. CARE-AI welcomes philosopher, cognitive scientist and author Paul Thagard as he discusses a new theory of information and misinformation based on mechanisms of acquisition, inference, memory and spread.

Cars coming towards the viewer on a wide street in twilight.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES “Don’t Look Up! Understanding Difficult Technological Truths"

Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?

Thursday, September 22, 2022

STV 305: Technology, Society and the Modern City—Winter 2023!

How did the technology of modern city life arise?  How does it all fit together? What is to come?

Join your fellow students in STV 305 in Winter 2023 to discuss and explore!

Prereq: Level 3A or later, or a previous STV course, or permission of the instructor: Cameron Shelley (cshelley@uwaterloo.ca).

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Workshop: Canada and the abolition of nuclear weapons

Project Ploughshares is hosting a free half-day interactive virtual workshop on Canada, the growing nuclear threat, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

There are nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons active today. Each presents an existential, yet preventable, risk. Now is the time for decisive Canadian action towards nuclear abolition.

Thursday June 9, 2022 @ 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (via Zoom).

Wednesday, November 24, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Is AI the Solution? Or Is It Already Being Overused?

Artificial intelligence is the cutting edge in decision-making and computer science. However, there is also the sense that AI is nothing more than a buzzword used in almost every facet of our lives right now. Given the current buzz surrounding AI, it is relevant to ask: what are the limits of AI? In many instances, such as with military technology, the availability of artificial intelligence is what made the technology possible in the first place. Can we expect systems to achieve decision-making capabilities and performances that are better than human across domains?