Adjunct Professor Eleonore Fournier-Tombs (Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa) researches how technology relates to global inequalities, pluralism and deliberative democracy. Professor Céline Castets-Renard (Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa), meanwhile, has a special interest in digital technologies and their impact, with a specific focus on AI and its regulation, including the legal and ethical challenges that arise as new technologies are developed. In this video, the two researchers discuss how they have conceptualized research methodologies allowing them to work and collect data from different international sites in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
More specifically, they explain how – as part of a broader project using artificial intelligence to trace the evolution of COVID-19 in Senegal and Mali – they developed new methodologies to efficiently collect data, while respecting the ethical, socio-political, cultural and legal issues specific to the use of advanced AI technologies in these regions.
“AI is an emerging technology that has really had a significant economic impact, but that also contains a masculine overrepresentation in terms of who develops and who potentially benefits from these...”
Eleonore Fournier-Tombs
— Adjunct Professor, Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law; Director, Inclusive Technology Lab, uOttawa
