I think using the Privacy Commissioner's expertise on privacy and other issues in artificial intelligence is a good way to leverage the expertise that is already there. I think a centralized entity that is able to audit companies for privacy and also for fairness and explainability would be the more efficient way to go forward, rather than splitting this into different entities that would have to coordinate anyway, because this issue is intricate. If you are a machine learning engineer and you have to implement privacy, fairness and explainability in your AI model, there is tension and synergy between these issues, and you cannot do them separately. I think the auditing part would also be one entity with the expertise to do that.
On November 30th, 2023. See this statement in context.