Articles by Benjamin Fung
Solving needs or hiding desires? A qualitative study of AI-Powered sex robots in disability services
ABSTRACT Individuals with intellectual disabilities face entrenched systemic and cultural barriers to sexual expression, often exacerbated in Chinese contexts by values of ‘face’ and ‘familism’. While artificial intelligence and humanoid sex robots emerge as potential interventions, their ethical and practical viability within disability services remains contested.
Canada should “de-risk” from China by updating its foreign-investment screening
Questions about how the West should re-envision its economic relations with China have been answered recently through “de-risking” – a term that suggests a nuanced, sector-by-sector approach to minimizing economic vulnerabilities while maintaining ties in other strategic areas. That approach, it is hoped, will prove less confrontational than the “de-coupling” of Western economies previously advocated by the Trump administration.
The impact of China targeting its diaspora
Recently I made a routine phone call to my grandma, Helen Taylor, to ask her to share two things with me: a CBC article she had earlier mentioned that I might be interested in, and her sweet and savoury banana bread recipe. Nothing noteworthy for most Canadians. But for certain diaspora communities these days, this routine phone call and simple act of information-sharing would be considered too dangerous to attempt.
Why a Foreign Influence Registry Act is necessary for Canada’s national security
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Misinformation and Chinese interference in Canada’s affairs
By Sze-Fung Lee and Benjamin Fung — Policy Options — Jan 4 2022 The story started with a private member’s bill introduced by former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in spring of 2021 – the Foreign Influence Registry Act (Bill C-282).
Misinformation and Chinese interference in Canada’s affairs
The story started with a private member’s bill introduced by former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu in spring of 2021 – the Foreign Influence Registry Act (Bill C-282). Its intention was to impose “an obligation on individuals acting on behalf of a foreign principal to file a return when they undertake specific actions with respect to public office holders.” This was a potential way to expose the relationship between agents in Canada and their ties to foreign countries.
Benjamin Fung
Benjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity and professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University. His LinkedIn profile is here.
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