Why AI Safety is Everyone’s Issue | Forward Global in Partnership with Philanthropic Foundations Canada
June 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm UTC-5
Forward Global, in partnership with Philanthropic Foundations Canada, invites you to an exclusive conversation with Professor Taylor Owen and AI Safety Philanthropic Advisor, August Hochman, on the evolving landscape of AI in Canada and the unique opportunities philanthropists have to help shape the future.
While the technicalities of AI can feel abstract, Professor Owen provides a uniquely accessible lens on its real-world consequences. This session will review the latest trajectories and implications of AI’s accelerating development, as it pervades every domain of society.
How will increasingly powerful AI affect the various cohorts and issues we fund – looking not just at the world as it is today, but as it will be tomorrow?
What are the threats of job displacement, expanding social harms, the supplanting of human connection, decision-making and agency?
What effects may this have on our children, on a just and equitable society, and on our wellbeing and democracy? And most importantly, how can we as philanthropists fill the gaps of action that governments and industry can’t address?
We can act. As a collection of philanthropists, we can help make a difference. Join us to get further clarity and insights.
More about Professor Taylor Owen
Professor Taylor Owen‘s work focuses on the intersection of media, technology and public policy. He is the host of the Globe and Mail’s Machines Like Us podcast and an Associate Professor at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. He was appointed to the Government of Canada’s AI Strategy Task Force in September 2025.
Questions? Contact Donna Lee, Donna@forward-global.org