One concern we've heard throughout this study is this: AI systems are increasingly influencing decisions in hiring, lending, health care, policing and even public services, often without Canadians fully understanding how these systems operate or how decisions are being made. At the same time, many of these systems are being developed by large foreign technology companies with limited public transparency. The Canadian data collected usually falls under foreign legislation.
How do we ensure that Canadians retain oversight of AI decisions and ownership of our own data?