This one-day conference bringing together researchers from psychology, philosophy, and computer science to ask what the human mind can tell us about AI—and what AI can tell us about the human mind. Pa...

Join us for an evening with Bruce Schneier—renowned security technologist, author of Rewiring Democracy, Harvard fellow & EFF board member.

A new submission from the Schwartz Reisman Institute argues that transparency should be treated as information infrastructure and sets out nine recommendations for the Government of Canada. The submis...

Benjamin Alarie’s new book argues that AI could move legal systems from scarcity to abundance. In conversation with SRI, he discusses personalized law, what must stay human in a courtroom, and why he ...

How should we understand privacy, trust, and accountability in a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies? Join Cornell Tech’s Helen Nissenbaum, one of the most influential scholars working a...

The 2026 September Soiree on Technophilosophy will bring together leading thinkers from neuroscience, chemistry, computer science, and philosophy. “Technophilosophy” asks philosophical questions about...

The Schwartz Reisman Institute has appointed internationally recognized digital culture and AI literacy scholar Kaitlyn Regehr as its inaugural Global Fellow. Regehr will lead a large-scale initiative...

SRI Research Lead Anna Su is convening a working group to examine how human rights frameworks are being impacted by AI systems. Expressions of interest are now open, with a deadline of September 17, 2...

The British Canadian Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.

A three-year, US$3.6M project co-led by SRI Research Leads Karina Vold and Ashton Anderson with Purdue University’s Louis Tay explores how AI systems might be designed to support long-term human well-...

Professor Tsimerman won the high-profile international award in part for his work on a problem that had stumped the discipline for decades.

SRI researchers will present 13 accepted papers and one workshop session at FAccT 2026, showcasing the Institute’s research in responsible AI, algorithmic governance, alignment, privacy, and the impac...

AI is everywhere. But can we trust it? A new SRI white paper led by Beth Coleman reframes trust in AI as a multidisciplinary challenge—not just a technical one—and charts a path forward.

An annual academic conference hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Absolutely Interdisciplinary convenes leading thinkers from a rich variety of fields to engage in con...

Eight projects announced to receive funding for AI safety research.

How can advanced AI systems reason, coordinate, and act responsibly in complex social settings? Join University of Toronto incoming assistant professor and Max Planck Institute research scientist Zhij...

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Nobel Prize Winner and ‘godfather’ of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton warns if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could unfold and lead to human exti...

A new partnership co-led by Karina Vold is confronting racism in AI systems—highlighting how tools like facial recognition and LLMs disproportionately harm Black and racialized communities, and callin...

These companies govern, unelected, through data-intensive platforms. It’s time we acknowledge that governance explicitly

SRI Faculty Affiliate Paolo Granata reflects on his new book Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn, Create with AI , rethinking how artificial intelligence reshapes learning, research, and creativity ...

SRI Faculty Affiliate Travis LaCroix explores the social and political dimensions of AI ethics in his new book Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem , arguing that meaningful alig...

The Schwartz Reisman Institute is now accepting applications for its 2026 Graduate Fellowships, supporting U of T researchers advancing responsible, human-centred approaches to AI and emerging technol...

Join us for this in-person event as Karen Hao draws on her global reporting and insider access to discuss the implications of AI’s rapid deployment, the erosion of democratic norms, and the need to ...