Panel and Q&A · P01
AI and Young People: The Future of Thinking
- Saturday, October 3, 2026 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Young people are the first generation growing up with AI everywhere.
An honest conversation about AI and youth: what young people are actually doing with it, what worries them, and what adults keep getting wrong. Audience questions welcome. This is not a lecture about cheating. It is the older conversation about thinking for yourself, now that digital intelligences are developing too.
Panelists
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Dashiel Carrera
Incoming Assistant Professor of Arts and Machine Creativity, HKUST
An educator, artist, and Human-AI Interaction researcher. He has taught computation and the arts at the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, and Virginia Tech; he is the author of the novel The Deer (Dalkey Archive Press, 2022) and a media artist with work at Goat Farm Atlanta and Inter/Access.
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Diana Maliszewski
Teacher-Librarian, Toronto District School Board
mondaymollymusings.blogspot.com
A teacher-librarian and media literacy educator in the Toronto District School Board. She sits on the board of directors for Canadian School Libraries, the Association for Media Literacy and the International Council for Media Literacy, teaches for Queen's and York University, and is a lead editor for Canadian School Libraries Journal.
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Ronit Novak
Founder and Editorial Director of The Grain
A creative leader and educator with more than 20 years across editorial media, advertising, and visual storytelling. As artificial intelligence began transforming creative work, she saw a growing gap between hype and fear, with little space for thoughtful dialogue, and founded The Grain to create that space.
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Omar Shahin
Master's Student at Toronto Metropolitan University
Transcript
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What you can take home
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Session
- Saturday, October 3, 2026 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Event page at the library