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Perspectives
Long-form essays and interviews on AI, leadership, economic resilience, and the forces reshaping Canada, from Perry Kinkaide and the KEI Network community.
KEI Network – Issue #234 – AI and OUR Future (Episode #9) – AI’s Engine: Design, Development, and Destiny
We began with an introduction to AI as a force reshaping human agency and concluded with governance—how societies might regulate and direct its course. AI safety researchers warn that should something
Fact or Fiction: AI — Greatest Invention or Greatest Risk?
Fact or Fiction: AI—Greatest Invention or Greatest Risk? Artificial intelligence is transforming our world with breathtaking speed. Across the KEI Network’s series AI and OUR Future , panelists agreed
KEI Network – Issue #233 – AI and OUR Future (Episode #8) – Lessons Learned from the Series
Through seven episodes in the KEI Network's series "AI and OUR Future" we've examined AI’s promise—from breakthroughs in science, health, and communication—to its perils, including inequality, disrupt
KEI Network – Issue #232 – AI and OUR Future (Episode #7) – Governing in a Democratic Society
AI is not just a tool of efficiency; it is also a temptation for control. In authoritarian societies, it is already weaponized to monitor, predict, and suppress. For democracies, the challenge is shar
KEI Network – SPECIAL EDITION – From Rupture to Renewal
Yesterday Canada's Prime Minister gave a speech in which he acknowledged the need for change - that the global economy is ruptured, that the US was no longer a dependable partner, and that technology
Fact or Fiction: “Your call is NOT important to us”
Fact or Fiction - “Your call is NOT important to us" FACT: Waiting—for hours—has become Canada’s new welcome mat at telecom call centres, CRA help desks, and hospital “emergency” rooms. FICTION: That
KEI Network – Issue #231 – Safety, Security, and Surveillance
Its benefits are extraordinary, but so are the risks: biased policing, wrongful arrests, and surveillance systems that erode privacy. Yet these early applications are only the beginning. As AI evolves
Fact or Fiction: AI Is Humanity’s Most Influential Invention
Fact or Fiction: AI Is Humanity’s Most Influential Invention The printing press spread literacy. But does artificial intelligence surpass them all? Unlike past inventions that extended human muscle or
KEI Network – Issue #230 – AI and OUR Future – Caring, Empathy, and Algorithms
Today, with education, the internet, and now AI, knowledge is no longer exclusive. Authority is compromised increasing the value of caring, compassion, and conscience — empathy in action, judgment in
Fact or Fiction: Peace in Our Time
Trump Is Not Chamberlain The phrase “peace for our time” has haunted history since Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in 1938, claiming to have secured peace through concession. Within a year, H
KEI Network – Issue #229 – AI and OUR Future – Media in the Machine Age
Soon after came my morning dose of global media: Russia ignoring pleas to stop, instead filling the skies with more death—images of apartment blocks and homes burning across Ukraine. Children carrying
Fact or Fiction: USA – In Decline
USA – in Decline Few questions stir more debate than whether the United States is in decline. Economists, strategists, and pundits all weigh in—but the answer depends as much on perception as on reali