Digital Dialogues:
Conversations about AI and Power

Our Digital Dialogues series is a set of conversations with people who study, shape, and challenge how AI is used at work and elsewhere. It grew out of the need to close the gap between what people are talking about and what many people are actually worried about: their career chances, their privacy, and their livelihoods.

Everyone’s talking about AI. But who is asking the questions that really matter?

It already feels like AI is everywhere. Every feed is full of “how to leverage AI,” productivity hacks, and prompt wizards promising to 10x your output. There’s no shortage of tips on how to use it, exploit it, and squeeze more out of your day.

In recent conversations with students, newcomers, and workers in unstable jobs, however, we kept hearing the same thing in different words: “I can sense AI changing things, but I don’t really know what’s happening, or what to do about it.”

AI is reshaping how Canadians work, access services, and are seen inside institutions. There’s a lot of research on its impact, but for most people that impact isn’t always easy to see, while changes just keep coming faster than they can reasonably keep up with. For many, the worries usually come down to a few simple questions:

• What is this doing to my job? 
• What is it doing to my career chances?
• What is it doing to my privacy?

Our Digital Dialogues series grew out of that tension. It is in response to the need for a space where people living through these shifts can pose hard questions and engage with those who research, design, and challenge AI at work and beyond, in search of real answers.

What is the Digital Dialogues series?

The Digital Dialogue Series is a set of conversations about how AI is changing work, privacy, and civic life in Canada, bringing together people who study, shape, and challenge AI at work. There’s a huge amount of valuable thinking happening in labs, policy circles, and advocacy spaces, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves.

Digital Dialogues is an independent, non-profit space, and not a corporate or industry platform. Each conversation steps away from AI as just a “tool” or “trend” and looks at how it’s quietly rewriting the rules of jobs, opportunity, and power. The goal is to empower different perspectives to compare notes, sit with the hard questions about AI, and ask what a fairer digital future could look like.