Industry committee  I think that we should not make the mistake of trying to put a lot of details into the law. All of us have little things that we would like to see. Because the technology is going to change and because the misuse and the harms are going to evolve, we need to have no choice but to

Industry committee  Yes, I also think there is good reason to make sure that the regulator is not going to be under a single mission. ISED has an innovation mission, which is really about the economy growing thanks to technology, but there are other aspects, especially those of harms, risks, natio

Industry committee  I agree with everything she said, but I want to add that there already are either for-profit or non-profit organizations—mostly in the U.S., but there could be some in Canada—working on AI safety. In other words, they are developing the technology to do what the regulator needs t

Industry committee  You're right: There's nothing we know right now that provides full guarantees that we can avoid all the harms that powerful AI systems can bring in. However, it would be foolish not to try to move the needle towards more safety. In particular, we should be making sure that compan

Industry committee  I want to add something. The recommendations that I listed briefly at the start include a line that must not be crossed. Companies should not be allowed to improve artificial intelligence technology to the point where it can influence people better than a human being could. The i

Industry committee  I would like to add one thing. Having principles‑based legislation protects us from upcoming changes and provides the necessary consistency. It gives regulators the chance to adapt the key details of our regulations to our partners' regulations.

Industry committee  I think so, yes. What it will do, for example, is force legitimate Canadian companies to protect the AI systems they've developed from falling into the hands of criminals. Obviously, this won't prevent these criminals from using systems designed elsewhere, which is why we have to

Industry committee  I'll let my colleagues answer some of those questions. However, I would like to clarify something I proposed in what I said and wrote. It has to do with setting a criterion related to the size of the systems in terms of computing power, with the current threshold above which a sy

Industry committee  I can't answer. I'm not enough of a legal scholar.

Industry committee  I completely agree with everything my colleagues said. I'll just add this notion of creating a level playing field. If you have corporations that really want to do good and there's no mandatory regulation, then they're forced to do as bad as the worst guy in the class. What you

Industry committee  Yes, that's right. It actually works that way in many sectors of our society, not just for drugs. Think of when a bridge or train is built, or when a new technique is developed to process meat. The public has to be protected so that things don't go awry. Companies have to be tran

Industry committee  As I've said in response to previous questions, I think self-regulation can be a good intermediate step because of how quickly it can be put in place. Companies can work in coordination to establish certain standards. That's the upside of self-regulation. However, there are goin

Industry committee  Absolutely. You are exactly right. Voluntary codes are useful to get off the ground quickly, but there's no guarantee that companies will follow that code. Also, the voluntary code is very vague. We need to have more precision about criteria for what is acceptable and what is n

Industry committee  That's a good question. We need rules to prevent exactly that. For example, computer systems such as Zoom and social media platforms should have to state clearly whether any video content, audio content or text is computer-generated, in other words by AI, or whether it is really

Industry committee  I think some aspects of the bill could do with being strengthened, but my colleague Ms. Régis could probably answer that better than I could.