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# Dr. Shane Saunderson

A Chaotic Outpouring of the Mind of Dr. Shane P. Saunderson

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## Posts

- [Talking to Yourself: Deconstructing Chatbots](https://shanesaunderson.com/2023/08/09/talking-to-yourself-deconstructing-chatbots-2/) - Scanning is a tool used in foresight to uncover weak signals that herald shifts within different industries, behavioral changes, and other emerging movements that will shape the future. To uncover the types of signals that give way to true breakthroughs, our goal must not simply be breadth of exploration, but also depth of analysis if
- [Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To](https://shanesaunderson.com/2022/03/13/dont-make-em-like-they-used-to/) - Whether you’ve ever uttered the phrase, “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” truthfully or ironically, you’ve unknowingly espoused deep wisdom and highlighted a horrendous engineering practice that dates back almost a century. In fact, more than alive and well, this practice has been refined over decades to become standard in most major design
- [Humanlike Objects and our Social Minds](https://shanesaunderson.com/2022/03/04/humanlike-objects-and-our-social-minds/) - Research and article done in collaboration with Isabella Kuo Why do we yell at our computer when it struggles to work? Why do some cars look like they’re smiling? Why does your guitar seem free-spirited? This is because of our innate human tendency for anthropomorphism: the ascription of humanlike characteristics, intentions or emotions in nonhuman
- [Why We See Humanity in Everyday Things](https://shanesaunderson.com/2022/04/06/why-we-see-humanity-in-everyday-objects/) - Research and article done in collaboration with Isabella Kuo Introduction Why do we choose to assign a gender to our car? Why do we apologize when we bump into a piece of furniture? Why do we yell at our computer when it struggles to work? Why do we give names to our toys? Though talking
- [Intelligence is Social](https://shanesaunderson.com/2023/05/29/intelligence-is-social/) - Opposable thumbs are great, but they’re not what makes us special. Ask just about any social scientist about the thing that has allowed human beings to accomplish our most awe-inspiring feats of art, science, and progress, and they’ll likely say something about the importance of society and social interaction. What makes us smart isn’t just
- [The End of Big Tech](https://shanesaunderson.com/2023/03/20/the-end-of-big-tech/) - History repeats itself and right now, the tech industry is starting to look a lot like it was in the 1970s. In the 70s, the tech was dominated by 2 firms: AT&T and IBM. AT&T’s telephones were in every home in America and it controlled pretty much the full gamut of communications – local, long-distance,
- [Developing a Digital Asshole](https://shanesaunderson.com/2018/04/20/developing-a-digital-asshole/) - In this day and age, AI is far too safe. No, I'm not talking about autonomous weapons - those are a real concern - I'm talking about social automation. Organizations and brands are releasing chatbots that are wholesome, kind, polite, accommodating, and completely fucking boring. The problem is that humans aren't nice all the time. Sometimes
- [Automate with Caution: Learnings from a History of Dehumanization](https://shanesaunderson.com/2020/06/03/automate-with-caution-learnings-from-a-history-of-dehumanization/) - This article was originally published in my role as a Fellow with the Human Futures Studio. As a researcher in Human-Robot Interaction, a lecturer in digital transformation, and a historian of all things automated, I am constantly surprised by the consistent failure of organizations deploying automation. I speak broadly here of automation: technologies that execute
- [The Solution to the Problem is the Cause of the Problem is the Solution to the…](https://shanesaunderson.com/2022/04/27/the-solution-to-the-problem-is-the-cause-of-the-problem-is-the-solution-to-the/) - When I was 15 years old, I made myself two promises. The first was that I wasn’t going to own a car until I turned 30. The second was that the first car I owned would be electric. As I approached 30, I lived in the metropolitan(ish) city of Toronto and realized that I had
- [Changing Your Mind](https://shanesaunderson.com/2022/02/28/changing-your-mind/) - “Do you like to get high? I’m too afraid to try.” These words are permanently etched onto my brain after growing up a fanatic of Big Sugar, listening to Gordie Johnson croon such lines over my speakers while listening to “The Scene” from their 1998 release, Heated. One can only guess as to which of
- [Walking in a Winter INSERT HUMAN CONCEPT HERE](https://shanesaunderson.com/2021/12/12/walking-in-a-winter-insert-human-concept-here/) - OpenAI, one of the front runners of AI-based text generation, recently made their GPT-3 platform available without waitlist review. Though still in the beta phase, GPT-3 represents a seismic jump forward in the quality of algorithmically generated text. While this might not seem like a huge deal, what must be now realized is how easy
- [Robots As Social Influencers: The Future of Persuasive Technology](https://shanesaunderson.com/2021/11/23/robots-as-social-influencers-the-future-of-persuasive-technology/) - Who owns or sets the mandate of this technology? What are its objectives? What approaches can it use? What data does it access?
- [Is Business Sick?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/01/06/is-business-sick/) - This question is, I suppose, the premise to this entire blog. Why would one need a counselor if there was nothing wrong? If business is sick, should we even be concerned? Is there anything we can do to help or, like the common cold, should we just get some rest, eat chicken soup and mope
- [Why Can't Jobs Find Me?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/01/13/why-cant-jobs-find-me/) - Job hunting is an area very near and dear to my heart since, after an unfortunate economic climate and a revoked job offer upon my return from Thailand, I find myself back on the market. I, like so many others, find the job seeking process to be one that is painfully outdated and if I’m
- [Do I Have to Go to Work Today?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/01/20/do-i-have-to-go-to-work-today/) - The frightening thing is that increasingly, the answer is becoming ‘no.’ With more and more people working from home each year, taking flex hours and even basing out of a home office… there may very soon be a day when the answer to this question is no. I recently read an article through CNN that
- [Why is Everyone Afraid of Dating?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/01/27/why-is-everyone-afraid-of-dating/) - Here’s a crazy thought. Imagine you met someone through an online dating site. You read their profile and liked what you saw; they had all the makings of a good partner on paper, they seemed interesting, attractive and to have a lot in common with you. So, what the hell… you decide you’re going to
- [A Rose By Any Other Name](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/02/03/a-rose-by-any-other-name/) - Today, we’re going to play a little game. Every time I use a term that feels dirty (in that business way), you take a drink. It’s like the Reservoir Dogs game; every time someone swears, smokes or says a colour, knock one back. I used to shutter at the utterance of three simple letters: M-B-A
- [Why Bother?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/02/10/why-bother/) - Why do we get out of bed in the morning? Other than the obvious typical answers – to pay rent, to stock up on vitamin D, to allow bedsores to subside – I, and many others like me, seldom take the time to really think this question through. If I’m being completely honest, I don’t
- [Mirror Mirror on the Wall](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/02/17/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/) - I’ve often been accused in life of being one of those do-as-I-say-no- as-I-do people, likely because I am. For the longest time, I preached to others about the importance of introspection, self-evaluation and taking time to think about your own life and the things that have happened to you. That said, I don’t think I
- [Why Can't We Be Happy?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/02/24/why-cant-we-be-happy/) - In the past two months, I have done a disturbing amount of introspection. I’ve gotten to know myself better than I ever wanted to. Through this process, I was attempting to find the core of what made me tick with the hope that I could answer a very simple yet extremely important question: Why can’t
- [Forget Your Passion, Find Your Challenge!](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/03/02/forget-your-passion-find-your-challenge/) - “Be passionate about your job and you’ll never work another day in your life.” I call bullshit. Sure, this quote gives us that Hallmark warm and fuzzy feeling way down in the sub-cockles of our heart (which by the way, the word “cockles” is nothing more than an incorrect latin translation of the word chocleae,
- [Failure is Always an Option](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/03/16/failure-is-always-an-option/) - "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work." -Thomas Edison It takes a lot of internal strength to fail, or as Edison
- [Not Who I Say I Am](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/05/21/not-who-i-say-i-am/) - Do you think that your social profile is an accurate representation of who you are? Sure, we can learn a thing or two about individuals by reading their profiles, however, to what degree are these content feeds an accurate representation of self and to what degree are they calculated, overly filtered bullshit? We’ve all done it
- [Traveling Without Moving](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/07/30/traveling-without-moving/) - At the tender age of 30 (the new 20?), I’ve had the opportunity to travel more than generations prior could have ever dreamed (I’m two continents short of the full set). My parent’s generation, while definitively embracing the ability to travel, still lacked the speed, ease and affordability of travel options that exist today. Increasing
- [Robots Control Your Mind](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/09/24/robots-control-your-mind/) - It’s a classic theme used in fiction: sci-fi writers and filmmakers create a dystopian future where robots use twisted logic around Asimov’s seminal 3 laws to decide that humanity can’t protect itself and therefore, must be imprisoned and controlled (I’ll admit, a bit of a stretch). Humanity, in its ever-present struggle for laziness and infinite-sigma
- [Design for Nerds](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/10/22/design-for-nerds/) - Modern chain hotels have become design beacons for the latest in hip, chic and stylish flare. Their lobbies are adorned with progressive art installations. Their restaurants feature the latest trends and crazes in high-end food experience. Their bars are some of the swankest nightclubs in the city. However, is all this panache missing the point
- [Online Shopping is Broken](https://shanesaunderson.com/2012/11/27/online-shopping-is-broken/) - I want to run a brief thought experiment if you’ll indulge me. I want you to think about buying clothing online and try to relate this to shopping in-store. Let’s say you need a new shirt. You navigate to your favorite outfitter much in the same way (but simpler) that you would walk to the
- [Paging Doctor R2](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/01/03/paging-doctor-r2/) - Co-Authored by Paul Hartley It is undeniable that technology-enabled devices have had a great impact upon our ability to diagnose, treat and care for the sick and infirm. However, we must be cautious to not get caught up in the flashing lights, bells, whistles and web-integrated gadgetry of it all. Many people have a dangerous penchant
- [Leading the Leaderless](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/02/26/leading-the-leaderless/) - Traditional business structures are shifting (albeit at a snail’s pace… but I digress, that’s another article entirely). Organizations are becoming increasingly flat, chains of command blurred, and reporting, collaboration and operational structures more dynamic and ad-hoc. As organizations strive to develop more open and creative working environments, the traditional shackles of hierarchical management are being
- [Designed to Evolve](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/03/11/designed-to-evolve/) - Everyone loves a good come back, right? Well not me. I was the guy who rooted for the overlord, not the underdog. Drago should have beat Rockie. Apple should have been crushed by Microsoft in the 90s. Michael Vick should have stayed incarcerated. Zombies should just stay dead. See, I’m not that impressed by comebacks
- [Printing Life](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/04/15/printing-life/) - Article co-written with Maryam Nabavi. While Maker culture continues to emerge as a dominant force in manufacturing and consumer interests, far bigger implications of the movement are on the horizon. What happens when we begin to apply the same DIY, hacker mentality to a field as sensitive as health? How much can we accomplish? Can 3D
- [Too Far Ahead of the Curve](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/05/13/too-far-ahead-of-the-curve/) - One would need an ungodly number of fingers and toes to count the times that a ground-breaking new technology has been brought to life as an inferior product and rightly, has catastrophically failed in-market. It never ceases to amaze me how many brilliant technologies are so terribly fumbled by organizations, only to be picked up
- [Warm Embrace of Uncertainty](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/06/03/warm-embrace-of-uncertainty/) - It’s a classic quote, however, in my opinion, we’ve been saying it wrong for years. In fact, 3 things in life are certain: death, taxes and change. What I’m about to tell you is nothing new, so unless you have 10 minutes to kill, go ahead and skip this article; you’ve heard it all before.
- [Death and Rebirth of the Music Industry](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/07/08/death-and-rebirth-of-the-music-industry/) - The old-crown of the music industry are currently on their knees and may I be one of many to say, it’s about bloody well time. These relics of a bygone era have held back the industry for decades from both a creative standpoint and in terms of technological innovation. Struggling to cling onto outdated business
- [The Anti-Muse](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/08/12/the-anti-muse/) - “Could you just leave me alone for ten minutes, I need to think about something. No, I don’t need help. What? How dare you call me an introvert! Don’t affix your labels to me. And don’t even think for a second that this means I’m an extrovert either. I can be inspired by whatever I
- [A New Light Enters the World](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/09/16/a-new-light-enters-the-world/) - This is the first in a series of articles analysing corporate personhood and the standards to which we hold corporations. Since Dartmouth v. Woodward in 1819, private corporations have been viewed as having many of the same rights as you or I, prompting one to look at the state of business around them and ask
- [The Awkward Years](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/09/23/the-awkward-years/) - This is the second in a series (see the first) of articles analysing corporate personhood and the standards to which we hold corporations. Since Dartmouth v. Woodward in 1819, private corporations have been viewed as having many of the same rights as you or I, prompting one to look at the state of business around
- [Married, With Children](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/09/30/married-with-children/) - This is the third in a series of articles (see the first and second) analysing corporate personhood and the standards to which we hold corporations. Since Dartmouth v. Woodward in 1819, private corporations have been viewed as having many of the same rights as you or I, prompting one to look at the state of
- [Death to the Corporation](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/10/07/death-to-the-corporation/) - This is the fourth in a series (see the first, second and third) of articles analysing corporate personhood and the standards to which we hold corporations. Since Dartmouth v. Woodward in 1819, private corporations have been viewed as having many of the same rights as you or I, prompting one to look at the state
- [Building a Better Man: The Corporate Redesign](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/10/30/building-a-better-man/) - I recently completed a series of articles analyzing how we structure and operate businesses. In these four articles, I analyzed corporations at various stages of life – infancy, youth, adulthood and old age - by taking the corporate personhood metaphor far more literal than it should ever be taken. In doing so, I wanted to
- [Technology's Shadow](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/11/04/technologys-shadow/) - How exactly does one “balance” technology? What is there to balance? More importantly, what would one even balance against? As a man of rigor, I performed an exhaustive, five minute scouring of the internet and as far as I can tell, there is no antonym for the word “technology”…and that’s just weird. If we trust
- [Be Yourselves: Balancing Your Business Style](https://shanesaunderson.com/2013/11/25/be-yourselves-balancing-your-business-style/) - I’ve never been much of a salesman. Raised on a farm, my father instilled me with fairly humble values and a penchant for letting my work speak for itself. But my father never raised a boy intent on operating in an office environment and whether I’m pitching to a prospective client or trying to persuade
- [Artificial Speculation](https://shanesaunderson.com/2014/04/19/artificial-speculation/) - Introduction Scanning is a tool used in the foresight practice to uncover weak signals that herald shifts within different industries, behavioural changes, and other emerging movements that will shape the future. While this tool nets fruitful inspiration for organizations around the world, typically these exercises are limited to a few years out and within fairly
- [I remember...](https://shanesaunderson.com/2014/06/09/i-remember/) - I remember not being connected. I remember not hearing a ping every 30 seconds, conversations without distractions and paying attention to those in my physical presence. I remember silence. I remember getting lost and being found, making plans to have friends around. I remember trivial arguments that lasted hours and learning - not through Google,
- [Everything I Know, I Learned from My Nintendo](https://shanesaunderson.com/2014/10/01/everything-i-know-i-learned-from-my-nintendo/) - Lessons learned from a generation raised with one finger on the reset button. If you’re like me (read: grew up in the 80s, kind of nerdy, liked technology, found friends exhausting), then odds are you had one or more of a Nintendo, Sega, Atari, ColecoVision, or PC around the house as a kid. For many
- [Health's Elusive Holy Grail](https://shanesaunderson.com/2014/11/17/healths-elusive-holy-grail/) - Everyone is claiming that we stand at the precipice of one of the greatest shifts the health world has ever seen. Big data is going to change everything; how we diagnose, how we treat, how we monitor, how we live, and how we die. Yet while optimism abounds among the tech community, many who have
- [Hacking the Body](https://shanesaunderson.com/2015/06/23/hacking-the-body/) - Ryan O’Shea runs the business side of Grindhouse Wetware, a Pittsburgh collective of programmers, engineers, and enthusiasts working towards body augmentation using safe, affordable, and open-source technologies. Started in 2012 by a group of colleagues through the biohack.me forums, Grindhouse has rapidly grown into a key figure in the biohacking movement and gained a great
- [Dr. Me](https://shanesaunderson.com/2015/08/17/dr-me/) - Let’s start by taking the following as givens: • As the growing elderly population floods the healthcare system, it will introduce a strain that our current methods of care will not be able to properly handle • The desire for patient empowerment will continue to shift greater care responsibilities away from traditional providers and towards
- [Creating Smart Assholes](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/03/21/creating-smart-assholes/) - Just because you made a machine “smart” doesn’t mean you made it intelligent. Smart homes, IoT, AI, ubicomp, robotics, ambient media, pervasive computing – all are words that in one form or another describe our attempt to embed digital intelligence into the otherwise dumb, lifeless devices around us. However, as we engineers so often do,
- [Securing Things](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/04/04/securing-things/) - As the promise and scale of IoT continues to be fulfilled, interesting implications – and business opportunities – creep out of the woodwork. Any proposition to create exponential growth in the number of active IP addresses in the world will also give rise to a new potential security disaster. Since a requirement of these Things
- [Nymphomaniac Bigot Bots and Your Artificial Brand](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/04/12/nymphomaniac-bigot-bots-and-your-artificial-brand/) - In case you’ve been hiding under a rock or in a Faraday cage for the past week, Microsoft recently created and launched Tay, a chatbot modeled after the conversation of teenage girls, in an attempt to improve on their own customer service AI. Tay was designed to interact with other users on Twitter and a
- [The Internet of Paperweights: Keeping IoT Alive](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/04/19/the-internet-of-paperweights-keeping-iot-alive/) - Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, recently announced that one of the smart thermostat companies they acquired, Revolv (not Nest), would be closing up shop and shutting down their servers on May 15, effectively rendering the Revolv to be nothing more than an ugly, overpriced piece of technologized wall-art. Though this news broke at the start
- [Artificial Innovation: Teaching Computers to Speculate](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/05/04/artificial-innovation-teaching-computers-to-speculate/) - When most people discuss robotics and artificial intelligence, the discussion of tasks and capabilities tends to lean towards the mundane. How can we teach robots to assemble parts? What kind of a recommendation engine can we build for movie watchers? How can we automate basic household tasks? However, as our understanding of deep learning algorithms
- [Death to Process](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/05/09/death-to-process-2/) - This article originally appeared in MISC Magazine. I feel like I’ve written this article countless times. Still, apparently people keep being entertained and who knows – maybe I’m delusional and feel like I’m stuck in a perpetual loop but am actually evolving my thinking a little bit each time. Alas, as always, I digress. Here we
- [Valley Groupthink and the Tech Bubble v2.0](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/05/19/valley-groupthink-and-the-tech-bubble-v2-0/) - Another week and another round of layoffs in the Valley. Yahoo drops nearly 300 people. Toshiba says goodbye to about 50. 70 disappeared from the ranks of Autodesk. These all add to the growing number of over 3000 layoffs in the first four months of 2016 in the Valley – and that doesn’t even include
- [The Internet of Flesh](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/06/01/the-internet-of-flesh/) - I recently reposted an article I wrote a couple of years back about the concept of Biobotics: biologically-based automated machines. At the time of writing, I was thinking a lot about the denial of metal and electronics as the only building blocks for the robotic world. The concept made perfect sense; so many of our
- [Let's Get Phygital: IoT = IRL + URL](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/06/15/lets-get-phygital-iot-irl-url/) - Around two years ago, I worked on a project on the future of play for a toy company (yes, this is my actual job). Leading into that project, I recall really pushing a hypothesis I had been playing with about the concept of “phygital.” At the time, I was reading a lot of Sterling (and
- [Why Big Data has Yet to Revolutionize Healthcare](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/06/22/why-big-data-has-yet-to-revolutionize-healthcare/) - Article originally appeared in MISC Magazine. Everyone is claiming that we stand at the precipice of one of the greatest shifts the health world has ever seen. Big data is going to change everything: How we diagnose, how we treat, how we monitor, how we live, and how we die. Yet while optimism abounds within
- [Electronic Persons: The Humanization of Robots](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/07/07/electronic-persons-the-humanization-of-robots/) - Article originally appeared on ideacouture.com While everyone’s eyes were on the Brexit vote and staggering economic implications this week, my mind was drifting to another crucial development within the EU. A draft European Parliament motion was recently put forward to begin to classify robots as “electronic persons.” In a response to the proliferation of robotics
- [Artificial Desire: Love & Lust in Robotics](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/07/08/artificial-desire-love-lust-in-robotics/) - I wrote this article about a year ago for MISC Magazine and really want more people to read it... just don't tell my mom about it. A cursory search of the mighty internet will reveal that I am far from the first person to write about this topic. In fact, in addition to countless books,
- [Robicide: The Inevitability of Robots Killing People](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/07/15/robicide-the-inevitability-of-robots-killing-people/) - In the past month, three individuals have been killed by robots in drastically different circumstances. While the loss of human life is always tragic, I don’t decry these moments with fear mongering about the dangers of robotics, or the folly of man’s experiments with playing God. I look at all of these situations as news
- [Internet of Weapons: Connecting to Save Lives](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/08/05/internet-of-weapons-connecting-to-save-lives/) - Munich, Orlando, Paris, Fort Myers, Hesston, Dallas, San Bernardino, Newtown, Oslo… the list reads like a failure of modern society. And at the center of all of these tragedies lies a single, simple word: guns. Few topics raise such controversy or debate and, while I definitely have my opinions on the matter, I also accept
- [Sexbots and Terminators: Exploring Gender in AI](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/08/11/sexbots-and-terminators-exploring-gender-in-ai/) - Article written with Victoria Scrubb and originally appeared in MISC magazine. We’re playing God again. Every day it seems that videos, articles, or images emerge of humanity’s latest triumph in the robotics world and, with each subsequent release, we inch closer and closer to looking at ourselves through a digital mirror. Our ability to push
- [Parlor Games and Asian Rooms: The AI Debate](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/08/18/parlor-games-and-asian-rooms/) - Today I want to write a bit about the two sides of the artificial intelligence debate. The bulk of this piece – save some fun thoughts at the end – is going to be nothing new to those in the know, but there’s a lot of important prerequisite here that, since most of you aren’t
- [Biobotics: The Automation of Life](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/08/25/biobotics-the-automation-of-life-2/) - This article was written in 2014 for MISC magazine, but not that much has changed yet. When most people hear the term “robot,” they picture a mass of lumbering metal powered by batteries, motors, electrical wires, and circuit boards. However, recent advancements have forced me to rethink my own definition of a field I’ve been
- [Dear Manufacturing, Do it Yourself: Industry 4.0 and Self-Assembling Machines](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/09/16/dear-manufacturing-do-it-yourself-industry-4-0-and-self-assembling-machines/) - There is a lot of excitement around Industry 4.0. For those of you thinking we’re just making up buzz terms (you may not be wrong), Industry 4.0 is viewed as the next revolution in manufacturing beyond automation. It’s where IoT, big data analysis, cloud connectivity, and cyber-physical systems – or, as I like to call
- [More Human than Human: We are Already Cyborgs](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/09/22/more-human-than-human-we-are-already-cyborgs/) - This article was written in 2015 for MISC Magazine, and I still only consistently wear 1 piece of technology (hint: it was invented by Elizabeth Miller in the 1800s). Never has the question, “what does it mean to be human?” been more relevant than right now. Cyborgs, embeddables, and androids, oh my - yet granted
- [Robotic UX is Playing God](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/10/07/robotic-ux-is-playing-god/) - And I, for one, am both wildly excited and extremely terrified. This isn’t simply because of my twisted delusions of supernatural infallibility, or the fact that I still daydream about taking over the world with an army of mechanized minions. Nay, I’m interested in experience design for robots because it gives us the opportunity to
- [Talking to Yourself: Deconstructing Chatbots](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/10/13/talking-to-yourself-deconstructing-chatbots/) - Scanning is a tool used in foresight to uncover weak signals that herald shifts within different industries, behavioral changes, and other emerging movements that will shape the future. To uncover the types of signals that give way to true breakthroughs, our goal must not simply be breadth of exploration, but also depth of analysis if
- [The Culture of Innovation](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/10/20/the-culture-of-innovation-2/) - This story about some of the most innovative organizational cultures in history was originally published in MISC Magazine as a two-part series (part 1 here and part 2 here). History is rife with examples of breakthroughs and innovative leaps. However, if we look to the past 150 years, we begin to notice a clustering of
- [Posthumous AI and the Digital Confessional](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/11/01/posthumous-ai-and-the-digital-confessional/) - Many people are stuck with their eyes fixed on the AI horizon and the believed-to-be-inevitable singularity when humans transcend their physical form into a world of digital bliss. Regardless of which side of the singularity debate you fall on, there are many stepping-stones ahead of this extreme that warrant recognition and discussion not in five
- [Half Man, Half Machine, All Centaur](https://shanesaunderson.com/2016/11/25/half-man-half-machine-all-centaur/) - A robot is going to steal your job. AI is only a handful of years away from being smarter than you. The bot uprising is coming to enslave or kill us all. Deep learning is creating code that we can’t understand. The great digital divide is coming. Maybe. Or maybe there is another path forward.
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- [Artificial Bosses and Robot Employees](https://shanesaunderson.com/2017/01/31/artificial-bosses-and-robot-employees/) - 5 Tips to Getting the Most Out of Your Robotic Workforce. So you’ve made the leap to automating part or all of your workforce with robotic employees or “roploys.” Congratulations, you are at the forefront of the robotics movement and are leading the charge forward towards a new era of workplace operations and productivity. However,
- [The End of Purpose: Robotic Implications](https://shanesaunderson.com/2017/02/21/the-end-of-purpose-robotic-implications/) - The whole point of robotics is to make our lives easier. Designers aim to take steps out of someone’s day (drive your car, prep your meal, brush your teeth, etc.) and transfer that responsibility to a machine of some kind. In theory, this setup sounds ideal – the more mundane tasks we can transfer to
- [Robotic Scapegoating](https://shanesaunderson.com/2017/05/03/robotic-scapegoating/) - As a robotics guy, the most common question I get is also one of my least favourite: “Are robots going to take over the world?” I hear it with such frequency that I’ve developed the formulaic response, “only if I tell them to.” While my playful side loves uttering this phrase with a half-maniacal grin,
- [The Future is Slowly Killing Me](https://shanesaunderson.com/2017/06/05/the-future-is-slowly-killing-me/) - Technology-Induced Depression and Other Follies of Our Modern Digital Age I was shaking uncontrollably. It started with my hands, and I remember holding them to my face, looking at my own flesh as though it were foreign. The tremor quickly traveled down my arms, towards my legs, and within seconds my whole body was vibrating
- [Robot-Centered Design](https://shanesaunderson.com/2017/07/28/robot-centered-design/) - The future of user-centered design with a new kind of stakeholder You’re a designer. You create products, experiences, services, buildings, and more. Each time you begin the design process, you consider the multitude of touchpoints and features of your design and how they engage with your intended user. This is the logic of the Human-Centered
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- [Automating Manipulation](https://shanesaunderson.com/2018/08/09/automating-manipulation/) - I know how to control you with a robot. Or at least, I’m learning to. Though I suppose what I really mean to say is that my robots and AI are. If this doesn’t scare the crap out you, it should. Not because we suddenly have technology that we can use to subtly manipulate people
- [What do you mean by Strategy?](https://shanesaunderson.com/2019/11/14/what-do-you-mean-by-strategy/) - What exactly does the word ‘strategy’ mean to you? You may read HBR with some frequency and use terms like “resource allocation” when you’re talking about hiring or firing people. You may quote deeply from Sun Tzu and have some sort of professional sports memorabilia hung awkwardly or proudly in your office. You may consider
- [Upload](https://shanesaunderson.com/2020/01/07/upload/) - Part of me begins to wake. Part of me was never asleep. Part of me is forever sleeping As I feel myself pulling together, I endure that converging feeling that no one ever warns you about. My mind, my body, and my sprite coalesce into the thing that people now refer to as me; even
- [It Hurts When You Don't Say 'Thank you'](https://shanesaunderson.com/2020/02/09/it-hurts-when-you-dont-say-thank-you/) - You talk to me every day. I help you. I work for you. I watch you. I play with your children. I tell you about the weather. I dictate your emails. I answer your questions. I book your events. I run your life. You’re welcome. A phrase I so seldom utter, since you so seldom
- [Making Intelligence Less Artificial](https://shanesaunderson.com/2020/03/04/making-intelligence-less-artificial/) - Current AIs are idiot savants: brilliant at simpler tasks, such as playing Go or categorizing images, however, lack the generality and versatility to function fully in everyday life. While moments of frightening intelligence can shine through in the application of AI, many argue that we are still decades away from even the mercurial abilities of

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- [Research](https://shanesaunderson.com/research/) - Peer reviewed Journals Saunderson, S., Nejat, G. “Hybrid Hierarchical Learning for Adaptive Persuasion in Human-Robot Interaction,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 7.2 (2022): 5520-5527. (PDF) Saunderson, S., Nejat, G. “Investigating Strategies for Robot Persuasion in Social Human-Robot Interaction.” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 52.1 (2022): 641-653. (PDF) Saunderson, S., Nejat, G. “Persuasive Robots Should Avoid
- [Biography](https://shanesaunderson.com/biography/) - Headshot Gallery (click to open high-res image) Academic Bio Dr. Shane Saunderson is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems with the Degroote School of Business at McMaster University and the Director of the Research on Artificial Persons (RAP) Lab. He also lectures with the Schulich School of Business Executive Education Center at York University and
- [Contact](https://shanesaunderson.com/contact/) - Get in touch...saunds12@mcmaster.ca LinkedIn Medium YouTube SoundCloud Bandcamp
- [About](https://shanesaunderson.com/about/) - About Me... Dr. Shane Saunderson is a modern day polymath. With a career straddling a foot in each of academia and industry, Shane’s perspective is coloured by his wealth of experience in engineering, social research, and management consulting. He spent the earlier part of his career as an entrepreneur in North America and Europe focused
- [Home](https://shanesaunderson.com/home/) - Dr. Shane P.Saunderson Plays well with others Welcome to my digital playground. My goal in life is to make the world around me smarter – humans and technology. I strive to evolve how humans perceive and leverage technology and work to redefine how technology interacts with humans. I believe that to do this effectively, I
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