Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Gentlemen, thank you for being here with us today.
To put things back in context, there are currently three different points of view on artificial intelligence. First, there are doomers, who see it as a threat, a danger to humanity. I think Mr. Bourgon is part of that group. There are also realists. Finally, there are enthusiasts. I think Mr. Guilmain is rather realistic.
It’s important to set things in their timeline. We’re currently at the crossroads of a new technology. This isn’t new. We’ve been through this before. Remember that scientists said a human travelling in a car at 100 km an hour would die. In the 2000s, many people saw the internet make sweeping changes, such as the end of work and everything we knew.
I’d like to know what is so very different today, given the knowledge we have. I’m pretty sure I know your answer. Obviously, we don’t know what will happen in 10 years, any more than we could know how far the internet would go in the 1990s.
Considering all the technology that has appeared over the last 100 years, what is so different now? Why is it imperative for us to legislate on the matter as quickly as possible?
My question is for you first, Mr. Guilmain.