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UN sets up advisory body to investigate AI globally
Internet and Governance | 11/20/2023 3:17 pm EST
The United Nations (UN) has created an advisory body on artificial intelligence (AI). Even though Canada is not sitting on the panel, it still has much to offer, an Ottawa university professor states.
Ksenia Yadav is an adjunct professor at Carleton University’s...
Will ad blocking destroy digital advertising?
Media | 09/25/2015 6:59 pm EDT
Technology that’s been around for years, which allows individuals to use services like apps and browser extensions to avoid seeing online advertising, has been causing new controversy in the past few weeks. According to Randall Rotherberg, president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in the United States, the practice is “robbery, plain and simple.” Ad blocking is “a potentially existential threat to the industry,” he argued in a Sept. 22 opinion piece in Ad Age. “I wish I were crying wolf, but I'm not. Some websites, particularly those...