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  • Aula Convening Guideline 2025 Ed.

    Aula Convening Guideline 2025 Ed.

    The Aula Convening Guidelines, 2025 ed.

    These Aula Convening Guidelines are for people working on tech governance and AI in society, these are 6 guidelines for convening communities for legitimate collective decision-making on how AI is implemented in society.

    Since our founding in 2023, Aula Fellows have hosted and participated in 100s of conversations in more than 30 countries and regions on AI. We have spoken with people who have a variety of needs, spanning through Learning AI, Living with AI, Working with AI, and Shaping AI.

    We have worked through 3 project phases, to develop these guidelines, from the common elements that make for conversations in which communities make decisions about AI. Our goal is not a new type of consultation, but rather to see to it that community convenings are conductive to collective decision making on AI.

    In 2026 we will be reaching out to partner organizations to continue to refine these guidelines and to bring them to more groups of people.

    They are complete and available now under a Creative Commons license, in this V.01, 2025 Edition.

    Link to the PDF.

  • Obama Foundation Fellow: Victoria Kuketz

    Obama Foundation Fellow: Victoria Kuketz

    We are proud to announce Aula Fellow’s Victoria Kuketz’s recent appointment as an Obama Fellow. Follow Victoria for news of her Fellowship this year, where she will be concentrating on inclusion and rational governance.

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  • Democracy Dialogues Lead Boldly, Inspire Globally: Meet the 2025-2026 Obama Foundation Scholars

    Democracy Dialogues Lead Boldly, Inspire Globally: Meet the 2025-2026 Obama Foundation Scholars

    Quoting from the organizers: “In a moment that former President Barack Obama describes as a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before,” we are proud to welcome the 2025–2026 Obama Foundation Scholars to the TMU campus for a special in-person episode of our Democracy Dialogues series. With three Canadians among this year’s global cohort—Victoria Kuketz (TMU’s own), Khalid Hashi, and Michelle Cartier—this is a rare chance to meet inspiring leaders working across disciplines, borders, and systems to develop solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our times.

    Open to students, community members, and leaders from across all sectors, this event is an opportunity to engage with the Obama Scholars, and reflect on how each of us can respond to the crisis we are experiencing. Engage in meaningful discussion, connect with the next generation of global leaders, and consider the kind of world we want to build – now.

    Be part of a conversation on transforming trust into action and participation into impact.

    Learn more about the Obama Foundation Scholars here and the Democratic Engagement Exchange here.

    About Democracy Dialogues:

    Democracy Dialogues is a public conversation series hosted by the Democratic Engagement Exchange at TMU. Each episode brings together thought leaders and community voices to explore the challenges and possibilities of building a more inclusive and resilient democracy.”

    See the event recording here: https://www.torontomu.ca/arts/news-events/2025/10/democracy-dialogues-lead-boldly–inspire-globally–meet-the-2025/

  • Developing the Permanent Symposium on AI (poster): Presented at Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Poster Session

    Developing the Permanent Symposium on AI (poster): Presented at Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Poster Session

    A multidisciplinary, reflective autoethnography by some of the people who are building the Permanent Symposium on AI. Includes the history of the project.

    RQ 1: Challenges that unite AI policy & tech

    RQ 2: How to design the PSAI?

    RQ 3: What factors influence the adoption and scalability of the PSAI?

    This is the Flagship project of the Aula Fellowship.

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  • Skills Lab Panel “Building Bridges”, for the Culture and Cohesion Summit.

    Skills Lab Panel “Building Bridges”, for the Culture and Cohesion Summit.

    Join Victoria Kuketz for an intercultural Skills Lab Panel “Building Bridges”, for the Culture and Cohesion Summit.

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  • Collision Toronto: Booth

    Collision Toronto: Booth

    Emmanuel Taiwo and Tammy Mackenzie represented the Aula Fellowship in the social good start-up stage. Thank you, Collision Toronto, for this excellent experience with old and new friends, working for good AI together in excellent company. Thanks also to Aula Fellow Rubaina Khan, Victoria Kuketz, and Marisa Eleuterio, for technical support throughout!

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  • Collision Toronto: Presentation

    Collision Toronto: Presentation

    Presented the Aula Fellowship from the Non-Profits Stage. Thank you, Victoria!

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  • Beyond the algorithm: Empowering ai practitioners through liberal education

    Beyond the algorithm: Empowering ai practitioners through liberal education

    As AI technology continues to transform society, there is a growing need for engineers and technologists to develop interdisciplinary skills to address complex, society-wide problems. However, there is a gap in understanding how to effectively design and deliver inter-disciplinary education programs for AI-related training. This paper addresses this gap by reporting on a successful summer school program that brought together specialists from around the world to engage in deliberations on responsible AI, as part of a Summer School in Responsible AI led by Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Through deep dive auto-ethnographic reflections from five individuals, who were either organizers or participants, augmented with end-of-program feedback, we provide a rich description of the program’s planning, activities, and impact. Specifically, our study draws from engineering education research, bridging the gap between research and practice to answer three research questions related to the program: (1) How did the program design enable a more effective understanding of interdisciplinary problem-sets? (2) How did participants experience the interdisciplinary work of the program? (3) Did the program affect participants’ impact on interdisciplinary problem-sets after the program? Our findings highlight the benefits of interdisciplinary, holistic, and hands-on approaches to AI education and provide insights for fellow engineering education researchers on how to design effective programs in this field.

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  • Preconference workshop for International AI Policy Conference at MILA.

    Preconference workshop for International AI Policy Conference at MILA.

    Aula Fellows presented a pre-workshop on asking hard questions on AI. Participants practiced identifying key chaarceristics of hard questions and discussing them together. During the conference that followed, several participants stood and asked hard questions, and several presenters were very happy to receive support and feedback on their most pernicious problems. We were able to build on existing collaborations and continue with or bridge-building between all the people and the people in decision-making roles on AI in society.

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