Mr. Ignacio Cofone at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2024 / 12:30 p.m.

Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance, McGill University, As an Individual

I think we would have enormous benefits from the AI commissioner's being an independent officer. An alternative, a second-best, would be to offset some of the powers that are now vested in the AI commissioner onto the tribunal, which is set up as an independent entity, but to have a better composition of the tribunal, we could increase the proportion of experts that occupy positions in the tribunal to compensate for that.

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