Essays

Finished, or nearly so. Some published elsewhere, some not.

Advance MAID requests: we need to talk about the day of death

The Province of Quebec has recently created procedures that allow advance requests for assisted dying. But do they really? I sent this to the Globe and Mail as an opinion…

High Emissions and Low Pay: Uber is Still Taking Regulators for a Ride

A report for RideFairTO

From Ant Wars to Human Wars

What do wars between ant colonies tell us about human wars?

Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee

War as a system in nature

We take wars between ant colonies seriously, and ask: “How should ant wars change how we think of war itself?”

Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee

Uber transit pitch misses the mark

An op-ed, published in the Toronto Star on March 29, 2021

The incompatible incentives of private sector AI

A contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University Press 2019

Workarounds and Medical Machine Learning

Adversarial examples are surprisingly similar to workarounds that fix mistakes. There are consequences.

The Rise and Fall of the Sharing Economy

A presentation to the Symposium of the Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation, Friday November 23, 2018.

In Praise of Fake Reviews

Fake reviews can be a legitimate response to predatory reputation systems