The Social Dilemma Documentary Discussion

Join an engaging talk on the popular Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, with Carter Cousineau from U of G’s Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI (CARE-AI).  The Social Dilemma highlights how social media companies can manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addictive behaviour. Many social media companies also gather personal data, which is used to target users with ads that are largely unregulated.

Watch The Social Dilemma in advance and bring your thoughts, reflections, and questions to this session.

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Overview of The Social Dilemma

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

“Technology’s promise to keep us connected has given rise to a host of unintended consequences that are catching up with us. If we can’t address our broken information ecosystem, we’ll never be able to address the challenges that plague humanity.” – The Social Dilemma web page

Don’t have Netflix?

Read through this article written by the Conversation, which touches on many of the same aspects of the documentary. You are still encouraged to join the discussion.

About the Facilitator

Carter is the Managing Director, CARE-AI. CARE-AI works to advance multidisciplinary AI training and research, and its responsible application to improve life. Aside from Carter’s work with CARE-AI, her research also focuses on bridging the gap between human to machine interactions to allow further interpretability amongst end users and expert systems.