Robert Diab

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Commentary & reviews

  • “AI’s Impact on Law: Why the Transformation Narrative Is Overstated”
    Slaw (31 December 2024)
  • “Canadian News Media are Suing OpenAI for Copyright Infringement, But Will They Win?”
    The Conversation (1 December 2024)
  • “Google’s AI Podcasts Signal a New Era in Media”
    CIGIonline (14 November 2024)
  • “The Reasons for Shutting Down TikTok in Canada Appear Tenuous at Best”
    The Conversation (11 November 2024)
  • “Why new AI Tools for Legal Research Fail to Deliver the Goods”
    Canadian Lawyer (8 November 2024)
  • “Apple Intelligence Will Help AI Become As Commonplace As Word Processing”
    The Conversation (21 October 2024)
  • “What Made-in-Canada Legal AI Can and Can’t Do Well”
    CBA National Magazine (9 October 2024)
  • “Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media — or the Opposite?”
    CIGIonline (22 July 2024)
  • “The Case for Mandating Finer-Grained Control Over Social Media Algorithms”
    Tech Policy Press (12 July 2024)
  • “The Online Harms Act Should Target Social Media’s Greatest Harm”
    Policy Options (30 May 2024)
  • “Is AI About To Replace All Human Writing? Not So Fast”
    Newsweek (25 April 2024)
  • “Why Ontario School Boards Are Suing Social Media Platforms for Causing an Attention Crisis”
    The Conversation (29 March 2024)
  • “Does TikTok Pose a Security Threat to Canadians?”
    The Conversation (15 March 2024)
  • “Are AI Language Models Too Dangerous to Deploy? Who Can Tell?”
    CIGI Online (18 May 2023)
  • “It’s Not the End of Privacy Yet in Canada, But the Threat Remains”
    The Conversation (17 April 2023)
  • Review of Kate Eichhorn, “Content”
    25(1) New Media & Society (2023) PDF
  • “The Great Unread: On William Deresiewicz’s The Death of the Artist”
    Los Angeles Review of Books (13 Oct 2020)
  • “Is Password Compulsion Constitutional in Canada? Two Views”
    The Advocate (July 2019) (with M. Putnam)
  • “Compelling People to Reveal Their Passwords Is Posing a Challenge to Police and Courts” Salon (26 May 2019)
  • “The Big Fail: The Internet Hasn’t Helped Democracy”
    National Post (15 October 2018)