
Career
Current Work
- Creator and host of AI Freaky Facts, an investigative narrative podcast exploring the risks, ethics, and breakthroughs of artificial intelligence — now past 30 episodes and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.
- Author of the Freaky AI Lexicon — a plain-English guide to 60 essential AI terms, each with a surprising Freaky Fact and a guide to the key tools and companies shaping that area of AI. Free for subscribers to the AI Freaky Facts newsletter.
Career Foundation
The roles below are where I learned what technology actually does to real organisations, real people, and real systems under pressure. That hands-on operational knowledge — across hospitals, universities, banks, and exchanges — is the lens I bring to every AI story I investigate.
- Healthcare — Fraser Health, Vancouver (7 years) Managed critical IT operations supporting patient care across multiple facilities.
- Higher Education — University of British Columbia, Vancouver (18 years) Managed IT infrastructure across 16 departmental units supporting 450 staff across three buildings.
- Finance and Entertainment — Vancouver Stock Exchange / IATSE, Vancouver (6 years) Built a stock brokerage system and a talent scheduling system for two very different industries.
- Finance — TD Bank / Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto (6 years) Led core technology projects at the head offices of two of Canada's largest banks.
Find My Current Work
- Podcast: aifreakyfacts.com
- Newsletter and Free ebook: Newsletter and Free AI Lexicon
- LinkedIn: Steve Atwal on LinkedIn
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