Privacy legislation has been instrumental in protecting data rights and data privacy in an increasingly data-driven world. But healthcare is a sector in which increased access to data could have major public benefits—for researchers, patients, and others. Learn more in a new report from the Schwartz Reisman Institute and Diabetes Action Canada on liberating Ontario’s health data for a digital world.

New work from SRI Director Gillian Hadfield and Jack Clark of OpenAI proposes a novel regulatory framework for ensuring AI can be used safely, ethically, and with the public interest in mind. Market-based incentives like competition, positive industry reputation, and expanded market access can spur efficiency and accountability in the ways in which we develop regulatory innovations.

The pace of change in cities—technological, social, economic—seems to speed up day by day, posing challenges to municipal government structures established in different times. More than 50 experts from academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector gathered for four working sessions to find solutions to crucial problems cropping up in city governance.

Eight world renowned scholars will form the core intellectual leadership of the Schwartz Reisman Institute. They will collaboratively develop an ambitious research agenda that spans research in artificial intelligence and computer science, the social sciences, and the humanities. Learn more about our inaugural research leadership team.

It all begins with an idea. As the inaugural director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Gillian Hadfield will draw on her varied background – in economics and law, humanities, business and high tech – to help ensure technological innovation is implemented fairly and equitably in societies around the world.