Good afternoon, everyone.
Welcome to meeting number 115 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h), the committee is resuming its study of the impact of disinformation and misinformation on the work of parliamentarians.
I want to remind everybody to be mindful of their microphones. I'm not going to go through the list of things that I have to say, but when you're not using the earpieces, make sure they're in the proper place.
For those online, for the benefit of the interpreters, try not to talk over each other. We want to avoid any injury during these hybrid sittings.
I'd like to welcome our witnesses today. We are only going to have one hour; we are in the process of rescheduling the second panel to a later date. Unfortunately, with all the votes today, we're in this position. I apologize to those witnesses.
I'd like to welcome, for the first hour, Mr. Ben Nimmo, who's a threat investigator for OpenAI.
I've also got Mr. Joel Finkelstein, who is the founder and chief science officer from the Network Contagion Research Institute.
Mr. Sanjay Khanna was supposed to be on our second hour. He was here in person in the audience, so I have taken the liberty of asking him to join us for this panel. He is here as an individual and is a strategic adviser and foresight expert.
Mr. Khanna, thank you for accommodating us.
I'm going to start with you, Mr. Nimmo. I understand that you've only got until one o'clock. Again, I apologize for the votes.
You have up to five minutes to address the committee. My job is to keep things on time, so I will stop you right at five minutes.