Dr. Jennie Day is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the CSS/Lab at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
An interdisciplinary social scientist, Dr. Jennie Day explores the socio-technical implications of engineers' and healthcare practitioners' future visions of AI-enabled smart home monitoring technologies for older adults. The project鈥檚 purpose is to constructively shape the ethical design, development and deployment of these technologies in practice through the creation of bottom-up, evidence-based ethical frameworks and values-based 鈥榚thical engineering design requirements鈥.
Dr. Day was previously a Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Jason Millar at the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL). She completed her PhD at Newcastle University in the UK, where she examined the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and socio-digital futures through the prism of autonomous vehicle (AV) emergence.鈥疕er research explores critical questions about the material power of AI鈥痠maginaries, algorithmic power and injustice, technological ontologies, democratic鈥痗onceptions of the 鈥榩ublic interest鈥, technological solutionism, and governance鈥痮f socio-digital futures.鈥