Canada’s AI data centre boom could bring investment and high-paying jobs, but its benefits may come with higher consumer costs and pressure on infrastructure. Simon Blanchette, course lecturer at...
As AI systems gain autonomy, traditional safety testing may no longer be enough to address emerging threats. McGill Desautels faculty lecturer Simon Blanchette and Professor Emmanuelle Vaast argue...
Simon Blanchette, Faculty Lecturer, says Canadian organizations implementing AI without strategic workforce planning are doing layoffs with extra steps, because they're losing expertise, and they...
In an office environment, AI can perform many of the tasks that have traditionally been done by interns and junior employees. While that might seem like an efficiency gain, companies could lose out...
The genie is out of the bottle. AI is here, and isn’t going away. But that doesn’t mean we can’t build guardrails to prevent it going off the tracks, writes Simon Blanchette in The Conversation....
The conversation around AI and automation has taken a sharper turn. A US Senate report released by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in Fall 2025 cautioned that over the coming decade, AI and...
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