To go back to some of Matthew's earlier points about our post-secondary system, the strength of that system and the source of Canadian pride that we have, we're seeing evidence that, when students, young people and workers of all kinds use these algorithmic systems to do or support their work, they retain only about 20%, at best, so one-fifth of the information. They don't even actively remember what they were writing. It decreases brain activity.
I would put aside social isolation and think about this myth that this technology can help us be self-driving as humans, take away our agency or that there are shortcuts to things. I may not have had the opportunity to study closely the previous testimony of the guests and witnesses you've had, but I'm not going to show up here with material that an algorithmic system has generated and not take the time to put my own thoughts together. That's one of the core questions we have when it comes to not just outsourcing the labour and work of thinking but whether we are going to need to think about this, like we did in the nineties, when we knew that labour was being actively offshored. Are we seeing instances in which labour is now going to be “AI-offshored”, and the job isn't actually going anywhere else but to a computer program?