There's definitely a lot of interest to capture research at Canadian universities, as well as American universities, on certain technologies that are going to be used for military purposes or for controlling populations. I put on a conference three years ago with the AI community and had an AI firm in Kitchener-Waterloo that was aggressively approached to sell stuff to China on facial recognition. They decided not to. They thought it would be misused, that none of the safeguards were....
There needs to be some kind of democratic consensus and alignment to stop the use of these technologies for nefarious purposes. We need to have export controls in Canada so that our technology is not misused for this. I think we need norms and regulations. There's a whole lot of talk about having a digital Geneva convention to limit the use of AI-powered drones and killer robots in war fields. It spans from privacy surveillance to automated weapons.