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Fenwick McKelvey

Kenya, Montreal
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Author of Internet Daemons (@UMinnPress), director @machineagencies. Into digital politics & policy. Associate Professor at @Concordia University. (He/him)
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Et si l’IA générative ne valait rien ? Ce ne serait pas forcément un problème

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By Fenwick McKelvey
| The Conversation
Dans la ruée vers l’or de l’intelligence artificielle générative, un scénario rarement évoqué reste à considérer : que se passerait-il si la technologie ne parvenait jamais à remplacer vos collègues, si les entreprises ne savaient pas l’exploiter efficacement, ou si la plupart des jeunes entreprises spécialisées dans l’IA échouaient purement et simplement ?
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Reimagining AI as a Public Utility Rather Than a Commercial Service

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By Fenwick McKelvey
| ZOOMER Magazine
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and others reshape the digital landscape, much of the conversation in Canada has focused on commercial innovation. But what if AI were developed as a public utility rather than as a commercial service? Canada’s long history with public service media — namely the CBC and Radio-Canada — offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public amid growing calls for a public interest approach to AI policy.
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Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?

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By Fenwick McKelvey
| The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON)
Commercial AI has largely been built on the assumption that user-generated content posted online is available to train commercial AI. Focusing so much on the technical success of generative AI ignores that its innovations depend on access to global cultural knowledge — the result of treating the internet as a “knowledge commons.” AI would have been impossible without public data, and much of that data was taken without contributing back to the public system.
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