Meeting Archive

The Ethics of AI Society of Waterloo meets regularly to examine philosophical,
legal, and social issues in artificial intelligence.  
Below is a record of past meetings and discussion themes.

Meeting - March 20, 2026 - Model Validation and Opacity
Meeting - February 27, 2026 - Environment and AI, Trustworthy AI
Meeting - February 13, 2026 - AI and Privacy, AI in Warfare (Guest Report: David Hildebrand)
Meeting - January 30, 2026 - Peircean Epistemology & AI, AI in academics
Meeting - November 25, 2025 - The Ethics of Gen-AI Art (Paper presentation: Matt S.W. Silk)
Meeting - November 11, 2025 - Philosophy of testimony and AI, AGI, Organoids & AI (Guest Presentation: Tim Kenyon)
Meeting - October 28, 2025 - AI in medicine, AI therapy, Adult content
Meeting - October 7, 2025 - AI Literacy (Presentation: Matt S.W. Silk and Ian J. MacDonald)
Meeting - September 17, 2025 - AI in education, AI Psychosis
Meeting - June 13, 2025 - AI Literacy and AI in research
Meeting - March 21, 2025 - AI in education (Academic integrity accusations and inductive risk)
Meeting - March 7, 2025 - Gen-AI art
Meeting - February 14, 2025 - Algorithmic manipulation
Meeting - January 17, 2025 - AI in healthcare
Meeting - November 8, 2024 - Affective computing and workforce surveilance
Meeting - October 11, 2024 - Business and AI, privacy
Meeting - September 20, 2024 - AI in the military
Meeting - March 1, 2024 - Facial Recognition, AI ethics committees
Meeting - February 2, 2024 - AI hallucinations and evidence
Meeting - November 16, 2023 - AI Regulation, Deepfakes, AI Music
Meeting - October 26, 2023 - AI Hallucination, Algorithmic Bias, Cognition and Autonomy
Meeting - October 5, 2023 - Inaugural Meeting
Original Ethics of AI Course (PHIL 228) - Winter 2022 - Formation of Ethics of AI Society