I've taken this to heart that it's our duty to inform constituents on matters of security among all the other things we do.
Dr. Whitman, you relayed how the cybersecurity...the role you played was relatively new to the military dimension other than hardening their own assets. It took a number of years to get the military and government as well to openly discuss it and what the role should be. Again, there has to be an offence to be able to play defence there.
Now we're seeing that the use of artificial intelligence is evolving in military fields. Back in the spring session, I moved a motion that the committee should study the use of artificial intelligence as it applies to defence. Since I made a motion back then, I've decided that I'm going to put the motion forward now.
I move:
That the Standing Committee on National Defence undertake a study on the application of artificial intelligence in unmanned aerial, naval, terrestrial vehicles, robotics technological development, weapons systems and Canadian Armed Forces personnel thought analysis, and that the committee commence planning the study during the final stages of The Peacekeeping study for study immediately after.
It's becoming increasingly important. Since the notice was first gained, we have Elon Musk who described artificial intelligence as the biggest risk we face as a civilization. Dr. Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, says technological progress toward artificial intelligence is happening too fast and without proper scrutiny or regulation.