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In a democratic society, people need to be normatively informed about current events to take civic action like voting, protesting, and organizing. In today’s AI-mediated information ecosystem, civic information is highly available, yet can be hard to parse and is often unreliable.

Jessica Green is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with cross appointments at the School of Environment and the Munk School of Public Affairs. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University and MPA from Columbia University. Her research is focused on climate governance, including carbon…

The bioeconomy aims to replace fossil-based, non-renewable products with those derived from biological resources and processes. The bioeconomy intersects with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through nature-based and engineered pathways such as afforestation/reforestation, biochar, and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage…

This talk addresses the sea change in how social safety net programs are administered in the United States and the concurrent dismantling of health and human services expertise at the federal level. It considers the implications of these shifts for children and families who depend on these programs, as well as for the…

Predictive models are increasingly used in decision-making pipelines, and the statistical information derived from their outputs is often treated as if it preserves classical coverage guarantees. This talk examines how such guarantees can fail when estimates are constructed from synthetic or inferred data rather than directly…

Democratic responses to climate change will be determined by how institutions such as deliberative bodies make sense of decarbonization. In a novel ethnography of the deliberations to achieve New York’s climate target, one of the world’s most ambitious, I show how norms of talk shape how people temporally coordinate action to…

Amidst a sea of hype and despair surrounding the use of computational artificial intelligence in mental healthcare treatment, comparatively less has been said about the implementation of AI into psychiatric triaging, evaluation, and monitoring. These under-regulated and bureaucratically oriented practices involve making…

The need to pivot away from fossil-fuel use rapidly is a common concern. But every technological transition is enabled and inhibited by its social and physical environments. I’m interested in small changes that add up, especially the choices that power homes and rely on the behavior of millions of people. How quickly can those…

The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) focuses on strengthening access to justice for all women and girls. This priority theme presents a critical opportunity to examine how systemic discrimination and institutionalised impunity deny women not only their fundamental rights, but also meaningful access…