Thank you, Chair.
Welcome to all of our witnesses, and good morning to all of my colleagues.
Over the break period and the time we had in our constituency offices, I was able to meet with some stakeholders with regard to AI—with some folks who are much greater subject matter experts than I profess to be. I asked them specifically to frame AI for me so I could understand it better. One individual wrote something to me that has helped me understand, because AI includes everything from putting waves on your app to showing you how to get home by the quickest route.
The framing was, first, that it is for diagnosis or analysis using AI-defined patterns and insights more quickly than humans can find them. The second element is that it can propose action plans or generate content using further insights to determine what actions would provide the most effective outcomes while reducing risk—and I'm going to emphasize reducing risk—as much as possible. This is where content generation shines. This includes the ability to generate travel itineraries, treatment plans for health, essays—and I'll preface that by saying one should not do something wrong on the essay side—videos, music and much more. The third element is automation. In certain cases where it is appropriate to do so, one can give the AI system the autonomy to take the appropriate actions without human intervention.
When I think about this ecosystem and these three elements that this individual so nicely laid out for me, I think to myself that we have this bill in front of us and we need legislation and a robust framework that will allow AI to evolve—because it is evolving, and hopefully in areas such as health care it will be able to be used in a very effective manner for diagnosis and treatment. I think that's quite exciting.
Given those three elements and the thoughts on them that I've laid out, in terms of this AI system and the framework, does the current bill have the robustness to handle the evolving technological innovation that we are seeing within AI?
Todd, perhaps you can answer or comment on that, and then I'll ask the gentleman beside you, depending on the time.