Join us to watch and discuss "Surviving progress" a stunning Canadian documentary about technology, growth and collapse!
December 1 @ 7pm in E5 6006.
Free admittance! Free popcorn!
(c) 2011 by the National Film Board of Canada.
Faculty
Project Ploughshares is hosting a virtual workshop focused on Canada, the growing nuclear threat, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
There are nearly 13,000 nuclear weapons in existence today. Each presents an existential, yet preventable, risk. Now is the time for decisive Canadian action toward nuclear abolition.
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.
Join us on October 28 at 4pm, in-person or virtually via livestream, for Critical Tech Talk 4: Batya Friedman!
Join us to watch Things to Come
the science fiction classic by H.G. Wells,
author of The time machine and The war of the worlds!
Oct. 6 @ 7pm in E5 6006.
Free admittance—Free popcorn!
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).
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?
Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits
Monday, November 8, 2021, 5 PM | Theatre of the Arts, University of Waterloo, in-person and livestreamed | REGISTER
The Centre for Security Governance is hosting the fourth Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society on December 10, 2019.