I would say that I don't have a negative view of artificial intelligence. What I would say is that I am cautious. I think my responsibility is to identify gaps between the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in the current regulatory environment in Canada and, in particular, some of the ways we're talking about as to how Canada fits into a global political economy around artificial intelligence.
I think some of my concerns around specifically generative AI hinge upon its impacts and relationship to Canadian privacy law. I think what we've seen—and I think what's quite significant—is that we're undergoing a kind of classic procurement hack, which is that technology like ChatGPT has been released to the public and workers are adopting and scrambling this without actual adequate time to address how this is being integrated into the workforce.
This is a strategy similar to what's been used by companies like Clearview AI in trying to adapt the use of AI tools in police forces through a similar mechanism of circumventing classic procurement mechanisms. I think these types of strategies are part of what I hope to call out. I have less concern about the technology itself, necessarily, than about its delivery and development with a clear sense of its social impacts.