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Can AI Save Us From Misinformation? - Macleans.ca

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4h

AI chatbots are riddled with false claims and invented facts. Wilf Dinnick is part of a team of Canadian journalists and AI engineers working to keep them honest. https://macleans.ca/technology-3/can-ai-save-us-from-misinformation/

AI slop is polluting Canada’s information ecosystem. I’m building an AI-powered fact-checker to fight back.

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4h

AI is a world-changing technology, much like trains were 200 years ago. If that’s the case: should unelected tech barons be the ones laying the tracks? https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

History shows that when a few people control a transformative technology, they control a nation’s future

Can AI Save Us From Misinformation? - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6h

AI chatbots are riddled with false claims and invented facts. Wilf Dinnick is part of a team of Canadian journalists and AI engineers working to keep them honest. https://macleans.ca/technology-3/can-ai-save-us-from-misinformation/

AI slop is polluting Canada’s information ecosystem. I’m building an AI-powered fact-checker to fight back.

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6h

Young Canadians are trying to stave off existential dread through retail therapy—and they're in massive debt. These are the doom spenders. https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-doom-spenders/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 9h

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 1d

“My concern is that due to the feeling that we can’t understand AI, we are undemocratically giving the technologists an immense power to shape our society.” https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

History shows that when a few people control a transformative technology, they control a nation’s future

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 2d

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 3d

When Mark Carney announced he was running for Prime Minister, Stephen Maher thought the former Bank of Canada governor might be brittle and smug, more an overbearing CEO than a national leader.

Turns out that's exactly what Canadians wanted.

https://bit.ly/4mP8l71

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4d

Mark Carney finally has the job he’s always wanted. But the ambition and aggression that got him there could be his political undoing. https://macleans.ca/politics/mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4d

AI is a world-changing technology, much like trains were 200 years ago. If that’s the case: should unelected tech barons be the ones laying the tracks? https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

History shows that when a few people control a transformative technology, they control a nation’s future

Canada’s Quirky Fishing Shacks - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4d

Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Richard Johnson photographed more than a thousand ice huts across all 10 provinces

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 4d

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

AI is a world-changing technology, much like trains were 200 years ago. If that’s the case: should unelected tech barons be the ones laying the tracks? https://macleans.ca/technology-3/railway-tycoons-shaped-canada-dont-let-ai-barons-do-the-same/

History shows that when a few people control a transformative technology, they control a nation’s future

https://macleans.ca/culture/larry-towells-visions-of-war/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

He's photographed kids in Gaza, campesinos in El Salvador and Afghan villagers under siege. Behind the scenes with one of Canada's top photographers. https://macleans.ca/culture/larry-towells-visions-of-war/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

When Mark Carney announced he was running for Prime Minister, Stephen Maher thought the former Bank of Canada governor might be brittle and smug, more an overbearing CEO than a national leader.

Turns out that's exactly what Canadians wanted.

https://bit.ly/4mP8l71

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

https://macleans.ca/politics/lower-the-voting-age/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

16-year-old Canadians can drive, get legally emancipated, make critical health decisions and enroll as officers in the Canadian Armed Forces. Why can’t they vote? https://macleans.ca/politics/lower-the-voting-age/

AI Could Save Canada’s Health-Care System - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6d

In the next few years, there will be millions more people needing complex health care—and not enough young Canadians to provide it. AI can help fill the gaps. https://macleans.ca/society/health/ai-could-save-canadas-health-care-system/

Canada is running out of doctors. Artificial intelligence can help.

Canada’s Quirky Fishing Shacks - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6d

Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Richard Johnson photographed more than a thousand ice huts across all 10 provinces

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6d

Mark Carney finally has the job he’s always wanted. But the ambition and aggression that got him there could be his political undoing. https://macleans.ca/politics/mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

https://macleans.ca/culture/larry-towells-visions-of-war/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 6d

He's photographed kids in Gaza, campesinos in El Salvador and Afghan villagers under siege. Behind the scenes with one of Canada's top photographers. https://macleans.ca/culture/larry-towells-visions-of-war/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Carney finally has the job he’s always wanted. But the ambition and aggression that got him there could be his political undoing. https://macleans.ca/politics/mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

Canada’s Quirky Fishing Shacks - Macleans.ca

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 7d

Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Richard Johnson photographed more than a thousand ice huts across all 10 provinces

https://macleans.ca/politics/lower-the-voting-age/

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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 7d

16-year-old Canadians can drive, get legally emancipated, make critical health decisions and enroll as officers in the Canadian Armed Forces. Why can’t they vote? https://macleans.ca/politics/lower-the-voting-age/