Information & Ethics committee  In terms of norms, I tend to come down on the negative side. Making sure the norms don't come solely from the private sector and industry is paramount, but that's increasingly what we are seeing. It's called self-regulation. I'm not saying all the answers have to come from govern

Information & Ethics committee  You have to find a balance between the law and the contract. Today, the contractual mode is predominant when it comes to deploying artificial intelligence in applications. When you click on a button at the end of the contract on Facebook, you accept or not. You don't have time to

Information & Ethics committee  I'll try to keep my answer brief. Yes, AI does come with unknowns. A modest stance would be to say that we don't quite know where we are headed. If we look at the past, we can find guideposts. You brought up the Industrial Revolution, which led to major advancements. However, th

Information & Ethics committee  There are many regulatory initiatives throughout the world. The European Union has just produced a normative and ethical framework with recommendations and assessment lists. It is, however, rare that countries resort to legislation. For certain activities and sectors, the legisl

Information & Ethics committee  You are asking me what the purpose of the robot is?

Information & Ethics committee  It makes it possible to personalize education. If a student is having difficulties, the algorithm can identify this very quickly and adapt the teaching content to the student. It's a big technological breakthrough. Canada and North America in general are still a bit behind with r

Information & Ethics committee  It's very difficult to direct social change through laws or regulation. When we talk about a technological revolution, we have to take the mode of the revolution seriously. As we were saying, there is a structural change. It does not seem reasonable to me to want to direct a tran

Information & Ethics committee  In the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence, for instance, one of the principles mentioned is prudence. The idea behind that is to state that there are security and reliability criteria for the algorithms, but not only for the algorithms.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I'd like to add something. I am in complete agreement with what has just been said about transparency. I think we overestimate transparency. The mechanism to test the algorithms is probably the best way to proceed to identify problems. Nevertheless, I would use the term “a

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that excellent question. There is no miracle solution. The idea is to get all of civil society working together, the informatics, ethics and social science experts, as well as the industry stakeholders. There is more than one useful expertise. We will manage to re

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to share with you some of the reflections about artificial intelligence ethical issues which we set out in Montreal. I was asked to speak about the Montreal declaration for the responsible development of artificial intelligence, which w