Chairholder Professor Jocelyn Maclure will be presenting a Keynote lecture at the Requirement Engineering for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (RETRAI) workshop in Montréal, August 18, 2026. The keynote is titled: "AI Ethics and Governance: Why the Value-Alignment Project is Misguided".

Prof. Joshua Skorburg will be a new visiting fellow at the Chair.
Fellow Bio: Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Academic Co-Director of the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI), and Faculty Affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. From 2018-2022 he was Adjunct Professor in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his PhD in Philosophy in 2017 from the University of Oregon. His research spans topics in applied ethics and moral psychology.

Alexis Morin-Martel successfully defended his PhD dissertation on March 18.
Title of the dissertation: The Value of Trust
Jury members: Jocelyn Maclure, Natalie Stoljar, Daniel Weinstock, Mauro Rossi, Mark Alfano
Alexis will be a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the department of philosophy at Chapel Hill, starting in September 2026.
This chapter, co-authored by Jocelyn Maclure and Alexis Morin-Martel was published in Donner un sens à l’éthique publique : Mélange en l’honneur de Luc Bégin edited by Patrick Turmel.
Flavie Chevalier and Jocelyn Maclure publish a chapter on AI and Semantic Understanding in Vocabulaire critique de l’intelligence artificielle, a book edited by Thierry Ménissier.
The book was published in November 2025.
This chapter, written by Jocelyn Maclure and Naïma Hamrouni, was published in Research Handbook on Voluntary Assisted Dying Law, Regulation and Practice edited by Ben White.
Written by Jocelyn Maclure, Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre, Karina Vold, Christophe Facal, and Isabelle Dumont
We are pleased to share that Hugo Cossette Lefebvre, a postdoctoral researcher for the Jarislowsky Chair, recently co-authored a paper with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University).
The paper is titled “Neither Direct, Nor Indirect: Understanding Proxy-Based Algorithmic Discrimination” and was recently published in the latest issue of the Journal of Ethics.
The Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology would like to congratulate Alexandre Thien-Tam Dao on receiving an ARIA fellowship with the chair for a project titled “AI Agents: The Ethical Implications of Personified AI Chatbots on Wellbeing”!
A paper by researchers at the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology, Jocelyn Maclure and Alexis Morin-Martel, was recently published in Digital Society.
AIOLIA gives a robust 3-tier response to the complex challenges posed by the need to operationally interpret the EU AI Act and global AI regulation. Resolutely European, AIOLIA's vision propagates beyond EU, embracing global cooperation with leading universities and think tanks in China, South Korea, Japan, and Canada. Utilizing UNESCO platform with its reach to Africa and South Asia, AIOLIA’s guidelines evolve into an analytic toolbox for key international AI dialogues and processes.
Jocelyn Maclure was recently interviewed for the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.
On January 13th, Jocelyn Maclure, the chairholder of the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology will speak at the Congreso Futuro at the Senate of Chile.
Jocelyn Maclure, a philosophy professor and the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology at McGill University was interviewed by CBC News in regards to a Radio-Canada investigation on GPT-4o.
This report, produced jointly with the Conseil supérieur de l'éducation, proposes 20 recommendations aimed at promoting a judicious use of generative AI in Quebec colleges and universities should a normalization of its use occur.
