I call the meeting back to order.
We have three new witnesses to welcome to the committee. One is joining us online and two are here in person.
Joining as an individual, we have James Elder, professor and research chair in human and computer vision at York University, and co-director of the Centre for AI & Society. We have Teresa Scassa, Canada research chair in information law and policy, from the common law section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. From Scale AI, we have Julien Billot, chief executive officer.
It wasn't exactly an uplifting first hour of testimony, so I'll be curious to see where we go in the second hour.
Witnesses, thank you very much for taking the time to join us. As a quick reminder, if you're in the room and your translation earpiece is not in use, to protect the health and well-being of our interpreters, please make sure that it's placed on the sticker in front of you.
With that, I'm going to give the floor to you first, Mr. Elder. You'll have up to five minutes for your opening remarks.