Thank you, Chair, and I really appreciate the discussion this afternoon.
Mr. Veerman brought up an interesting point in his opening comments. He said that AI adoption in Canada isn't necessarily an adoption problem and that it's mainly a trust problem. I wanted to dig into that a bit more from the perspective of a professional structural engineer.
When working in complex design, we've been using computer-aided design for years now, but the professional engineer is always responsible at the end of the day for that design. When you introduce AI into that process, it becomes a bit more complex, because you're dealing with a black box and you don't necessarily know how it's giving you the answers. When I'm using a calculator as part of my design, I am 100% certain that I'm going to get the right math from the calculator, but I don't know that necessarily from AI software.
My question is for Mr. Veerman.
When we're talking about the risks and regulation of AI in terms of adoption and trust, is there a necessity to have regulated accuracy in the products that are being provided to industry?