Human Resources committee  I do want to acknowledge that there are opportunities here. One of the parts that I think is important with generative AI in these opportunities is thinking about how they're changing the barriers to access, particularly when it comes to things like passing as a native English sp

Human Resources committee  In preparation for this, I was trying to look for evidence of where these impacts would be coming from. I wasn't able to find anything that's been published that's talking about the impacts in Canada, necessarily, with the gender-based, I would say, and I'd add that this is reall

Human Resources committee  I want to first clarify that artificial intelligence is a complicated term presently. I appreciate Dr. Frank's work in distinguishing between the present discussions of generative AI and the broader term that we use for artificial intelligence. Certainly, there is a wholesale c

Human Resources committee  Honourable member, I can assure you that I can't predict what will happen next, nor when the light will go out in my office. I will tell you that I think there are actually long-term trends. I feel that one thing that is important to recognize is that generative AI is arriving

Human Resources committee  First, some of my comments were also drawn from the forum for AI presentation in Montreal and some of the panel discussions around labour. I actually think it is important to recognize the differences in Quebec's leadership on addressing the social impacts of artificial intellige

Human Resources committee  I would say that I don't have a negative view of artificial intelligence. What I would say is that I am cautious. I think my responsibility is to identify gaps between the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in the current regulatory environment in Canada and, i

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak here today. I'm an associate professor in information and communication technology policy at Concordia University. My research addresses the intersection of algorithms and AI in relation to technology policy. I submit these comme

Information & Ethics committee  I think the discoverability of things is a really important thread, so thank you for picking that up. To me, discoverability means what shows up when you search for something. I would point to some of the research I've done in the Algorithmic Media Observatory. We looked at disco

Information & Ethics committee  I also want to say that the federal government is currently investigating right now the ways it's governing itself in AI. The Treasury Board is looking into impact assessments for AI. As it's rolling out, how is AI being deployed in the federal service? There's a review process b

Information & Ethics committee  It's very strange for me, as someone who teaches communication and media studies. I have had long-standing criticism, I think shared by many people, about the gatekeeping effects of the media and the decline of the for-profit media. It's not something that anybody comes here hold

Information & Ethics committee  I would joke that the CBC should buy Reddit, in part because I think we had about a 10-year gap when we really weren't thinking about what public broadcasting means in an era of social media. I still think we have in many ways a really limited sense of what the potential of socia

Information & Ethics committee  I think Dr. Owen summed it up nicely. There are transparency requirements. It's about trying to make sure that when there is bot activity, we know it's a bot, and that there is disclosure around it. I've actually thought it comparable to the voter contact registry, the VCR. The

Information & Ethics committee  The thing is that there's a distinction between hate speech, which is captured under the Criminal Code, and what I think is an increasingly growing concern, which is harmful speech. We don't want to conflate the two. As a male who has grown up online, and having talked to my fema

Information & Ethics committee  I'm currently working with Chris Tenove and Heidi Tworek on a report about content moderation. First off is that there is no one jurisdiction that's going to regulate these platforms. I think they are multi-jurisdictional and I think that's actually something that's not a problem

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I think enforcement mechanism is quick. I think one of the challenges is how you develop tools during the election to combat some of these things. This is where I think a code of conduct would be important, because, if you think of parties, if all of a sudden one party is be