Crucial questions. New solutions. Powerful technologies should improve life—for everyone.

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Who We Are

We want to ensure powerful technologies make the world a better place—for everyone.


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What We Do

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society convenes world-class expertise across sectors and disciplines to help ensure that powerful technologies like AI are responsible, inclusive, and beneficial to everyone. Our mission is to deepen our knowledge of technologies, societies, and what it means to be human by integrating research across traditional boundaries and building human-centred solutions that really make a difference. Our Research Stream and Solutions Stream are distinct but intertwined branches of our work, operating in tandem to co-constitute and inform each other’s practices, perspectives, and processes.

Research

Our Research Stream is overseen by highly experienced scholars in a wide range of fields, from computer science to philosophy, political science, economics, and law.

SRI aims to investigate and transform the ways we think about how technology, systems, and society interact. Our work is deeply informed by four interwoven “conversations” that take into account the nature of information, human norms and values, and the dynamics between technology and culture.

Solutions

Our Solutions Stream aims to meet the demand within industry, government, and civil society for innovative and actionable solutions to the challenge of building safe, responsible, and inclusive technologies.

SRI seeks to move beyond abstract principles, ethics, and guidelines by developing concrete and actionable outcomes for policy and governance contexts. We believe new models are needed that can reimagine the relationship between citizens, government, and the private sector.

Get involved:

Join the Schwartz Reisman Institute in our mission to deepen knowledge of technology, society, and what it means to be human. We hold regular events, discussion groups, and promote the latest research on technology and society.

For University of Toronto faculty and students, we offer fellowships that support interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented research focused on the impacts of technology on society. We also welcome applications to our affiliates program.