Human Resources committee  I don't have the names of the companies off the top of my head, but I would be looking at some of the HR firms that are providing some of these management services. I think that's a part of the.... I'd be happy to...if there is a way of providing comments, but I actually think it

Human Resources committee  I would say two things briefly. Bill C-27 builds in large exemptions for what types of data can be collected, so if it is anonymized or for legitimate business purposes. I feel like that actually warrants more consideration of what that entails and of the potential impacts it has

Human Resources committee  Algorithmic management is a broad blanket term to talk about different types of techniques of using computers and AI, predictive analytics, to schedule workers, to talk about their performance, to evaluate them and to assign jobs. I think Uber is a good example of algorithmic man

Human Resources committee  Briefly, I would point to a study by the Immigrant Workers Centre of Montreal looking at the applications of algorithmic management in warehouse management. I think hearing from workers, and from workers who are impacted by this, is an important part in making sense of this and i

Human Resources committee  Yes. Definitely. I'd commented earlier on asymmetrical bargaining power. If you're looking at online social media platforms, you have real data imbalances there. We have mounds of evidence about workers trying to make content creators online subject to how platforms change their

Human Resources committee  First, there is a need to consider this around Bill C-27 and the ways in which we're trying to understand privacy and data. Partially what is really important now is recognizing our data power. What AI demonstrates is that there's power in collecting large amounts of data. You ca

Human Resources committee  Obviously this is not my area of expertise, but I will say that I have been pulled into some of these discussions because, in Montreal, there was a proposal to introduce a robot into a seniors' home as a way of taking care. That led me down a bit of an investigation into what the

Human Resources committee  Acknowledging my poor powers of prediction, I can't draw a direct correlation between a rise in precarious work and artificial intelligence. I would say that where we'll see a significant place, and where we want to attend to AI's impacts, is around precarious workers and gig w

Human Resources committee  Yes, I've been able to review it briefly, but not in complete depth. I'd say that it certainly demonstrates the clear gaps that I see in Canada's approach to the artificial intelligence and data act. You see much more fulsome treatment of potential harms and willingness to engage

Human Resources committee  I'll say that my expertise has been historically in the telecommunications sector. When looking at discussions of artificial intelligence, there has been a real turn towards automation. I thought there would be more debate, but in my review of the trade literature, there was a fo

Human Resources committee  I'm going to give a Canadian example, the BlackBerry. I actually remember being a worker and my bosses having a BlackBerry and walking around and how cool they were. Really, I think the shift was to where there's an expectation of being connected and a change in the kind of dynam

Human Resources committee  I was just thinking back about that. When we were talking about the early days of the dot-com boom, and stuff like that, we weren't talking about the same magnitude or influence of companies. If anything, we've learned, and I think we can.... Partially, what I'm here for is that

Human Resources committee  I think there's a question about ensuring that there's proper taxation, which is another discussion around large platforms, and making sure they are contributing. I know there's some stall in movement in the OECD. Certainly you're talking about ensuring that the benefits or the p

Human Resources committee  I think it kind of demonstrates to me what's an important arrangement here. If this technology is not coming into a neutral place, it's coming in where you're talking about large studios, creators and the relationships between them. I think—

Human Resources committee  Thank you so much. I appreciate the time. I just wanted to say that I think what's interesting is that, in at least the writers strike, what was being negotiated was access to data and trying to ensure that workers were able to understand their place in the organization, which I