The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society responds to Canada’s consultation on global privacy certifications, outlining how CBPR and PRP can strengthen data protection, build public trust, and drive innovation in the digital economy.

With two new appointments and six renewed roles, the Schwartz Reisman Institute’s 2025–26 cohort of research leads will advance projects on trust, creative pedagogy, agentic AI, democratic fairness, and human–machine relationships, fostering public dialogue and policy insights on the transformative role of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute is proud to announce its SRI Seminar Series programming for Fall 2025. This semester, an extraordinary lineup of scholars, technologists, and legal thinkers will examine urgent issues at the intersection of technology, governance, and society. Through thought-provoking presentations of new research and ideas, the series will explore topics ranging from the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and the creative industries, to the governance of advanced AI systems, to the social and political dynamics of democratic engagement in the digital age.

In a new essay series, the policy team at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society examines AI’s impact on the values underpinning democratic societies and governance. The series explores how AI, if left unchecked, may impact democracy – offering both an opportunity to reaffirm democratic values and critically assess the role of AI governance and regulation.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of 24 new faculty affiliates for the 2025–26 academic year—its largest incoming cohort to date. Representing a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, the new affiliates bring deep expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, public policy, digital culture, healthcare, ethics, law, sustainability, and education.

Researchers and scholars spent the day at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus tackling some big-picture questions about the future of AI and society. Photo credit: Dan Browne.

At SRI’s annual conference, participants discussed future directions and key challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) research, including the complexities of aligning advanced AI with human values and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI safety.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) hosted a roundtable discussion on February 11, 2025, as part of the official side events at the AI Action Summit in Paris centered on insights from an upcoming SRI paper, Trust in Human-Machine Learning Interactions: A Multifaceted Approach, led by SRI Research Lead Beth Coleman.

In April 2024, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) hosted a workshop that brought together 33 high-level experts to explore the viability of regulatory markets. Over the course of the workshop, participants identified key challenges and worked through practical steps to move from theory to operationalization, laying the groundwork for a clear roadmap toward future governance. Their findings are captured in a new report (PDF) published today by SRI.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is proud to announce the appointment of fifteen new graduate fellows from across the University of Toronto.

SRI Chair David Duvenaud’s op-ed in The Guardian explores the impact of AI on human relevance and suggests strategies for adapting to ensure we aren't outpaced in every area of society.

Can AI unlock the hidden rules of our DNA and revolutionize medicine? SRI Graduate Fellows Micaela Elisa Consens and Ben Li explore this question in a new commentary examining the potential of genomic language models to transform biomedical research.