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Dark Side of "Empathetic" AI Chatbots

Can #AI care about a child's emotional development? Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, associate professor at the Werklund School of ...

Language with a Good Heart in a World of Fluent Machines

Keynote for the CALICO 2026 conference on language learning, care and fluent machines.

University of Regina 2026 AI Futures Day 3 Speaker Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan

The Dr. John Archer Library & Archives was the lead organizer of the University of Regina's AI Futures event held on March 11-13, ...

Graduate Students’ Experiences with Generative AI-Mediated Scholarship

Sabbaghan, S., & Eaton, S. E. (2025). Navigating the Ethical Frontier: Graduate Students' Experiences with Generative ...

Honeybee Logic: A Message from Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan

Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, co-founder of Honeybee Logic and professor at the University of Calgary, describes our software ...

ChatGPT (A.I.): Friend, Foe, or Faculty Tool?

Sept 18, 2025. Presenters: Jessalyn Holodinsky, Paul Ronksley, Soroush Sabbaghan, and Inara Lalani.

Interview with Soroush Sabbaghan | 2024 UCalgary Teaching Awards

Soroush Sabbaghan is the 2024 recipient of the @ucalgaryca Teaching Award for Experiential Learning Initiatives. Soroush ...

AI, Education, and EDI: Part 1 with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan | SAIL Interviews

In Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, Associate Professor at Brooklyn School of Education, we discuss the role ...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Will AI Make Us Wiser or Not at All? by Soroush Sabbaghan

Generative AI is not just a tool—it is a mirror reflecting the strengths and weaknesses of educational research itself. From shaping ...

"AI Cannot Be Held Accountable": Part 2 with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan | SAIL Interviews

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, we dive deeper into the ethical and practical challenges of integrating AI ...

Leveraging AI for Creating Learning Materials

Creating Learning Materials Speaker: Soroush Sabbaghan Institution: University of Calgary In this video Soroush shares ...

Examining, episode 97: Soroush Sabbaghan

In this episode, Erik and Kris Interview Soroush Sabbaghan an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary's Weklund School of Education ...

Episode 46: Soroush Sabbaghan

Every time you engage with these systems, you gain something—but you also lose something.” “Human agency is your capability ...

The CanadianEd Leadership Show: Episode 91 with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan

In this first episode of season 4 of The CanadianEd Leadership Show, we kick off with Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, Gen AI leader in ...

AI Through an EDI Lens: The Need for Human-Centred Design

Generative AI through an equity, diversity and inclusion lens, and why human-centred design matters for reducing bias and empowering educators.

Should AI chatbots simulate care for students? Alberta teachers say no

Soroush Sabbaghan, University of Calgary. Author. Soroush Sabbaghan. Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary ...

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AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’

Soroush Sabbaghan, University of Calgary. Author. Soroush Sabbaghan. Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary ...

AI and the Arts: A Community Conversation

In an AI and online exam age, how can students resist urges to cheat?

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AI literacy and the new age of thinking

Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan emphasizes practical framing. As the inaugural generative AI educational leader at the University of Calgary and ...

How universities are responding to growing concerns about AI

Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan, an associate professor at the University of Calgary, says that the growing need to consider AI policies may be revealing ...

Embracing the technological evolution in teaching and learning

Sabbaghan is an associate professor at Werklund and the Educational Leader in Residence in GenAI at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and ...

Our epistemic boundaries between learning and assessment

Soroush Sabbaghan, Associate Professor of Education and Educational Leader in Residence for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the ...

Soroush Sabbaghan appointed as inaugural GenAI Educational Leader in Residence

Sabbaghan is an Associate Professor at the Werklund School of Education, and his research and teaching center on the ethical integration of ...

Having impact: it's at the core of what motivates Soroush Sabbaghan to teach

In his teaching, Sabbaghan helps students across disciplines to bridge the gap between theory and practice, developing micro-projects where ...

The 10th year of the University of Calgary Teaching Awards honours recipients

At the heart of change

Soroush Sabbaghan is an associate professor (teaching) at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. With degrees in Mathematics ...

AI Spy: Universities struggle to catch AI generated work

Getting Veedback

Using veedback in two online graduate courses, Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan provided students with individual video screencasts – each about 4 minutes ...