Honourable member, I can assure you that I can't predict what will happen next, nor when the light will go out in my office.
I will tell you that I think there are actually long-term trends. I feel that one thing that is important to recognize is that generative AI is arriving in a pretty well-established policy context when you have growing debate and concerns across the government about the influence of large technology firms.
Really, two things come to mind as key points. One has been an approach that governments elsewhere have been trying to look at around arbitration and being able to allow for and support our collective bargaining power when there's such asymmetry between a large platform and a worker on those platforms. I would add that many of the creative sectors working online now are out front and centre on the impacts of algorithms and how that will impact content creation.
I would think that one part is trying to figure out how to, in places, step in to alleviate bargaining asymmetries. The second is trying to deal with actually the contracts and contract law, because in many ways you're dealing with service arrangements with large institutions and cloud providers. This is another key point where we need symmetries in place. I think those are two key sites of identification.
I think the third thing is just being mindful of the changes that are taking place in workplace surveillance. This is a long-standing trend. Certainly things like the turn toward algorithmic management and employee monitoring programs are not going away. I think sustained attention could be dedicated there.