[acc-cca-l] Book launch: SimPolitics with Fenwick McKelvey 28 Sept.

[Evan Light]

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Hi folks - I'm organizing a book launch for friend and colleague Dr. Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University. Details below.

Will AI save or ruin democracy?

Monday, Sept 28. 11:30-1pm

Samara Centre for Democracy

33 Prince Arthur Ave

A live Q & A between Dr. Fenwick McKelvey and Monika Warzecha, digital editor at The Walrus, discussing his new book with open access with MIT Press<https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15585.001.0001>, SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers<https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6166/SimPoliticsAmerica-s-Quest-to-Solve-Politics-with>.The public discussion connects the book to today's debates around AI, bots, and the future of democracy.In SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s to explore how computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.

Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Democratic Communication<https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs.html> Daniel Kreiss says "With rich detail, Fenwick McKelvey's brilliant SimPolitics urgently reminds us that we should spend less time worrying about perfecting simulations and more time thinking about their politics."

Organized by the PolicyDreams Research Lab and Gallery<https://policydreams.ca/> at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/> and hosted by the Samara Centre for Democracy<https://www.samaracentre.ca/>.

Please register here!

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/will-ai-save-or-ruin-democracy-tickets-2001260958399?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true


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Evan Light
Associate Professor, Policy Studies
Coordinator, Critical Information Policy Studies
Faculty of Information / iSchool
University of Toronto
https://ischool.utoronto.ca<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/>
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