Digital Wisdom: Searching For Agency in the Age of AI

Machine Agencies is pleased to welcome Dr. Richard Lachman to speak about his recently published book, Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in the Age of AI

Inviting us to an active role in reshaping technology is at the core of Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in the Age of AI. The book helps you understand more about the underlying issues of AI, social media and data analytics, so we all can pick a better path together. This book explores how fundamental aspects of today's digital technology intersect with our rights and assumptions about private life, individual autonomy, and social boundaries.

Richard Lachman is a professor in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he also serves as director of the Experiential Media Institute and Academic director of the Zone Learning network of incubators. A computer-scientist who studied at the MIT Media Lab, Richard is also an award-winning digital producer and frequent media-commentator on technology issues. He has led projects with UNICEF, TIFF, The Banff Centre, Penguin UK, The Discovery Channel, the CRTC, among others, and his work in transmedia has been honoured with a Gemini Award, a CNMA, and a Webby Honouree.