The AmberMac Show

In this week’s headlines, Amber and Jeff discuss what parents need to know about the new ChatGPT for Teens, the crazy places Amazon drones are dropping packages, and the AI boss at a San Francisco store that just fired its first human. Plus, developer Michael Booth joins the show to discuss why he launched a platform featuring official data on how Canada and its people live, work, grow, and change – data that his Canada Clearly website makes easy to explore, understand, and verify. Plus, Amber has her top 3 tech tips for a smooth back-to-school September.
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Michael Booth – Cloud Engineer & Creator of Canada Clearly

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In this week’s headlines, Anthropic’s new AI text watermarking, why some University of Toronto classrooms are banning laptops, a better approach to building data centers, and a device that could turn the tide in the fight against mosquitoes. Our guests this week are Eliot Pence, CEO of Dominion Dynamics, on building defence tech for Canada in Canada (including defending the Arctic), and Jody Thomas on why Canada’s security starts with resources and why we should be concerned about China’s interest in our mining capability.
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Eliot Pence – CEO of Dominion Dynamics
Jody Thomas – Senior Advisor at Counsel Public Affairs

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Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a 6000-word AI manifesto. In this week’s headlines, Jeff and Amber discuss what’s inside the long-winded letter, why MySpace and its BFF Tom could be making a comeback, and how the ongoing memory crisis is affecting the world’s biggest tech companies. In The OtherMac, Jeff explains how an AI agent could meaningfully change the world in ways the rest of us could get behind. Plus, this week’s guest is Benjamin Alarie, co-author of a new book called Superjustice, which unpacks how AI is transforming law and why Canada needs to keep up.
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Benjamin Alarie – Co-founder & CEO of Blue J + Co-author of Superjustice: Law in the Age of AI

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On this week’s episode of The AmberMac Show, Jeff introduces two leading experts who join us to discuss two of Canada’s most important issues today: economic sovereignty and climate resilience. First up, as part of a brand new season of This is Mining: The Podcast, Amber speaks with Heather Exner-Pirot, Senior Fellow and Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about Canada’s competitiveness, critical minerals, supply chains, and more. Plus, Rachel Doran, the Executive Director of Clean Energy Canada, breaks down why 2026 is a comeback year for electric vehicles in this encore interview.
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Heather Exner-Pirot – Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment program at Macdonald-Laurier Institute: LinkedIn
Rachel Doran – President & Executive Director at Clean Energy Canada: LinkedIn

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In this week’s episode, Amber and Jeff unpack what happened when OpenAI lost control of its AI model that hacked Hugging Face (which many are calling it a wake-up call for the future of AI safety), plus why Elon Musk can’t seem to stop feuding with journalists, and how getting your health advice from TikTok might not be the best idea. Amber also talks with Kathryn Hume, Vice-President of AI Engineering at the Vector Institute, about AI bias, including how AI is reshaping major decisions, from hiring employees to approving mortgages, and what’s needed to reduce bias and discrimination as these technologies become more widespread.
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Kathryn Hume – VP AI Engineering at Vector Institute

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