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 /\n	\n	Move Fast and Break Things? Montreal’s Role in the Global AI Industry
 \n	\n	Montreal is now an 'AI powerhouse.” But that hasn’t always been the ca
 se — and it didn’t happen organically or naturally. Instead\, specific aca
 demic institutions and NGOs have sought to build a robust ecosystem here i
 n Montreal with significant support and funding from the government and co
 rporations like Microsoft and Google. Why was Montreal chosen as one of Ca
 nada’s AI hubs? To what ends\, and for whose benefit? How are vulnerable p
 opulations harmed by tech industry gold rushes?\n	\n	In this talk\, legal an
 d sociotechnical researcher Yuan (you-anne) Stevens explores these questio
 ns through legal and archival analysis of government economic development 
 policies\, government subsidy agreements\, as well as both press releases 
 and news articles that reveal the efforts of government-corporate-academic
  alliances in the pursuit of making Montreal the “world’s leading AI and d
 eep learning hub” at nearly any cost.\n	\n	Yuan (you-anne) Stevens is a rese
 arch consultant specializing in public interest law\, emerging technology\
 , and computer security. She currently works as a Research Officer at the 
 Cyberjustice Laboratory\, housed at the Faculty of Law of Université de Mo
 ntréal where she examines the impact of artificial intelligence on access 
 to justice for vulnerable populations. She is a research affiliate at Data
  & Society Research Institute (NYC).\n	\n	She received her B.C.L./LL.B (JD) 
 from 51�Թ��� in 2017\, working as a research assistant for hacke
 r expert Gabriella Coleman. One of her current academic projects is an eth
 nographic study focused on the labour experiences of hackers who participa
 te in crowd-sourced vulnerability disclosure. She serves on the board of d
 irectors for Open Privacy Research Institute\, Head & Hands in Montreal\, 
 and previously worked at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society a
 t Harvard University.\n	\n	This event is part of the Feminist and Accessible
  Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (h
 ttps://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com). This series 
 was made possible thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Co
 uncil of Canada\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Stud
 ies of McGill\, MILA\, the Dean of Arts Development Fund of McGill\, Media
  @McGill\, McGill's Department of History and Classical Studies\, the Will
 iam Dawson Fund\, RéQEF\, the Moving Image Research Laboratory\, Element A
 I\, and L'Euguélionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstore.\n	\n	There is no fee r
 equired to attend this event. Notes on accessibility will be announced clo
 ser to the event.\n
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LOCATION:Room 150\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Yuan Stevens on Montreal's Role in the Global AI Industry
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