Christelle Tessono
@christelle.bsky.social
Tech Policy Researcher
Grad student at University of Toronto Faculty of Information
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hi, it’s me, christelle. your friendly tech policy researcher currently doing ai governance research at the university of toronto’s faculty of information. just wanted to re-introduce myself 🫶🏾
I am thrilled to announce that I will begin my PhD at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto this week. I’ll be building on my previous work in AI governance while expanding my focus to trace and explore the broader landscape of technology policy challenges in Canada ☀️
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I am thrilled to announce that I will begin my PhD at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto this week. I’ll be building on my previous work in AI governance while expanding my focus to trace and explore the broader landscape of technology policy challenges in Canada ☀️
NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨
We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.
We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.
Are deepfakes flooding your social media feeds?
Our survey research found 80% of Canadian residents want clear labelling of AI-generated content, but current efforts aren't cutting it.
Our latest report explores which approaches are effective + what more can be done: dais.ca/reports/huma...
Our survey research found 80% of Canadian residents want clear labelling of AI-generated content, but current efforts aren't cutting it.
Our latest report explores which approaches are effective + what more can be done: dais.ca/reports/huma...
May 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨
We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.
We conducted a survey experiment to see if labelling AI generated content can affect people’s behaviour. We found that current labelling approaches by social media platforms don’t work. More effective methods must be implemented to help improve trust and transparency online.
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Our takeaway from the Paris AI Action Summit: It's time to start thinking about how we can work against "AI governance" when it fails to include impacted communities
Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social
Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press
The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.
www.techpolicy.press
February 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our takeaway from the Paris AI Action Summit: It's time to start thinking about how we can work against "AI governance" when it fails to include impacted communities
Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social
Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social
Reposted by Christelle Tessono
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press
The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.
www.techpolicy.press
February 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
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This Saturday! I'll be co-presenting "AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure", a new project with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @christelle.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social
If you're in Paris for the AI Action Summit, come say hi!
If you're in Paris for the AI Action Summit, come say hi!
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Notion
Join us for an independent symposium, taking place online and in-person, organized to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on...
pairs25.notion.site
February 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This Saturday! I'll be co-presenting "AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure", a new project with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @christelle.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social
If you're in Paris for the AI Action Summit, come say hi!
If you're in Paris for the AI Action Summit, come say hi!
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Excited to co-present AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure alongside @blairaf.com @christelle.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium in Paris on Feb 8 @ Sciences Po.
Join us!
Join us!
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Notion
Join us for an independent symposium, taking place online and in-person, organized to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on...
pairs25.notion.site
January 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Excited to co-present AI Countergovernance: Collective Resistance and Lessons Learned from Canada’s National AI Policy Failure alongside @blairaf.com @christelle.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium in Paris on Feb 8 @ Sciences Po.
Join us!
Join us!
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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A little something for the mid-holiday news dump hall of fame www.theverge.com/2024/12/27/2...
OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company
OpenAI said the structure will help it raise more money.
www.theverge.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
A little something for the mid-holiday news dump hall of fame www.theverge.com/2024/12/27/2...
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a timely reminder that deep neural networks ≠ neurons
December 23, 2024 at 6:07 PM
a timely reminder that deep neural networks ≠ neurons
Reposted by Christelle Tessono
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster "throttle" access to e-books by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both.
'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News
More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.
www.cbc.ca
December 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster "throttle" access to e-books by selling them to libraries for either a limited time or a limited number of circulations — sometimes both.
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"The shortfall could cause blackouts during peak demand periods in both countries, and will be worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries and hybrid resources to the grid, according to NERC."
www.ft.com/content/7c24...
www.ft.com/content/7c24...
AI poses threat to North American electricity grid, watchdog warns
Surging demand from tech sector could overwhelm generation capacity, report says
www.ft.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:20 PM
"The shortfall could cause blackouts during peak demand periods in both countries, and will be worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries and hybrid resources to the grid, according to NERC."
www.ft.com/content/7c24...
www.ft.com/content/7c24...
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD
Exclusive: Lawsuit brought by former moderators against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
* PTSD, depression and anxiety: why former Facebook moderators in Kenya are taking legal action
* ‘The work damaged me’: ex-Facebook moderators…
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD
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This immediately made me think of the @sunhahong.bsky.social paper "Prediction as Extraction of Discretion"
December 14, 2024 at 7:47 PM
This immediately made me think of the @sunhahong.bsky.social paper "Prediction as Extraction of Discretion"
"Under the old system, an inspector could use discretion on which plants needed more attention [...] 'The problem with the current system where everything is totally algorithm-based is it doesn’t allow for inspector judgment'”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
An algorithm was supposed to fix Canada’s food safety system. Instead, it missed a deadly listeria outbreak
Five years ago, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency began letting manufacturers increasingly police themselves under a new system of oversight. Now three people are dead and many more have been harmed...
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
"Under the old system, an inspector could use discretion on which plants needed more attention [...] 'The problem with the current system where everything is totally algorithm-based is it doesn’t allow for inspector judgment'”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Is AI really a game-changer for Canadian productivity 🕵🏾? At the @daistmu.bsky.social, we conducted a study which found no conclusive evidence of a strong positive or negative relationship between AI adoption and short-term productivity improvement. Give it a read and lmk what you think!
Finally getting a chance to do this... new paper!
In this paper, we provide the first (in Canada) causal estimates of AI adoption on firm-level TFP 1/7
dais.ca/reports/wait...
In this paper, we provide the first (in Canada) causal estimates of AI adoption on firm-level TFP 1/7
dais.ca/reports/wait...
Waiting for Takeoff: The short-term impact of AI adoption on firm productivity
In this study, we tackle the critical question of whether AI adoption leads to productivity improvement at the firm level.
dais.ca
December 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Is AI really a game-changer for Canadian productivity 🕵🏾? At the @daistmu.bsky.social, we conducted a study which found no conclusive evidence of a strong positive or negative relationship between AI adoption and short-term productivity improvement. Give it a read and lmk what you think!
The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada have formed a coalition to sue OpenAI, in a joint statement they say that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.
Breaking this morning - Canadian news publishers are suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
www.thestar.com/news/canadia...
Canadian news publishers suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
OTTAWA - A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada have formed a coalition to sue OpenAI, in a joint statement they say that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.
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Oh cool. 😬
Apple patent uses FRT with ‘body data’ so cameras can ID people without seeing faces | Biometric Update
The system described associates facial recognition with other body characteristics to recognize certain people even if their faces are not visible to the camera
www.biometricupdate.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Oh cool. 😬
annotating a book you’ve been meaning to read for months with pens and markers >>>>>>>>>
November 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM
annotating a book you’ve been meaning to read for months with pens and markers >>>>>>>>>
hi, it’s me, christelle. your friendly tech policy researcher currently doing ai governance research at the university of toronto’s faculty of information. just wanted to re-introduce myself 🫶🏾
November 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
hi, it’s me, christelle. your friendly tech policy researcher currently doing ai governance research at the university of toronto’s faculty of information. just wanted to re-introduce myself 🫶🏾
Reposted by Christelle Tessono
in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
April 3, 2024 at 8:28 AM
in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
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The Canadian government introduced its landmark Online Harms Bill (Bill C-63) in parliament on February 26. @cjten.bsky.social and @heiditworek.bsky.social ask, was the legislation worth the wait? And what did Canada learn from other jurisdictions?
www.techpolicy.press/what-lessons...
www.techpolicy.press/what-lessons...
What Lessons Did Canada Learn Before Creating Its Online Harms Bill? | TechPolicy.Press
Chris Tenove and Heidi Tworek ask, was the legislation worth the wait? And what did Canada learn from other jurisdictions?
www.techpolicy.press
March 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The Canadian government introduced its landmark Online Harms Bill (Bill C-63) in parliament on February 26. @cjten.bsky.social and @heiditworek.bsky.social ask, was the legislation worth the wait? And what did Canada learn from other jurisdictions?
www.techpolicy.press/what-lessons...
www.techpolicy.press/what-lessons...
Reposted by Christelle Tessono
the most effective approach to "AI for social good" is to not use any AI
January 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM
the most effective approach to "AI for social good" is to not use any AI
Reposted by Christelle Tessono
This Thursday, I will be testifying on Bill C-27 and its AI and Data Act (AIDA) for Canada’s House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Tune in to the meeting on December 7 starting at 3:30pm EST:
www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...
www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...
www.ourcommons.ca
December 6, 2023 at 9:38 PM
This Thursday, I will be testifying on Bill C-27 and its AI and Data Act (AIDA) for Canada’s House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Tune in to the meeting on December 7 starting at 3:30pm EST:
www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...
www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...