Information & Ethics committee  When they gather all of this data, the purpose of it is to create a high resolution avatar of each and every human being. It doesn't matter whether you use their systems or not. They collect it on absolutely everybody. The concept of voodoo in the Caribbean was essentially this n

Information & Ethics committee  May I add something about GDPR? I worry about the next step. You have to expand what it covers. You have to address not just the data that people put into these systems but the data that is systematically gathered about them through acquisition from third parties, through survei

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Daniel, I think you have an enormous problem trying to solve this by yourselves. I think that Google doesn't believe that it's competing against Facebook. Facebook doesn't believe it's competing against Google. I think Google thinks it competes against the Government of China

Information & Ethics committee  The answer is that I do believe that they bear responsibility. Again, to go back to the answer I gave you before, we also have to remember the things that are inherent in the architecture of the Internet. To me the question is this: Is there some way to put anonymity on trial and

Information & Ethics committee  The issue that we're dealing with here is that in the United States, or in North America, roughly 70% of all the artificial intelligence professionals are working at Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Amazon. To a first approximation, they're all working on behavioural manipulation.

Information & Ethics committee  As a generalization, I would not be in favour of the level of government intervention that I have recommended here. I simply don't see alternatives at the moment. In order to do what Shoshana is talking about and in order to do what Jim is talking about, you have to have some l

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Not only do I agree with that, I would like to make a really important point, which is that the design of the Internet itself is part of the problem. I'm of the generation—as Jim is as well—that was around when the Internet was originally conceived and designed. The notion in tho

Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't let them within 100 miles of Toronto. The fundamental issue here is one of self-governance and self-determination. I just don't believe that any business—not Google, not anybody—should be in the business of operating our public spaces and our civic infrastructure. Ther

Information & Ethics committee  There was a study done at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that suggested that disinformation spreads 70% further and six times faster than fact. There are actually good human explanations for why hate speech and conspiracy theories move so rapidly. It's about triggering the flig

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with that statement completely. To me, the challenge is in how you manage it. If you think about it, censorship and moderation were never designed to handle things at the scale that these Internet platforms operate at. In my view, the better strategy is to do the interdic

Information & Ethics committee  There's one point that I think is being overlooked here, which is really important, and that is that if these companies disappeared tomorrow, the services they offer would not disappear from the marketplace. It would take literally moments. In a matter of weeks you could replicat

Information & Ethics committee  He is more afraid of privacy. To Mr. Lucas, I would just say that the hardest part of this is setting the standard of what the harm is. These guys have hidden behind the fact that it's very hard to quantify many of these things.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I believe that not only is that correct in terms of their philosophy, but as Professor Zuboff points out, it is baked into their business model. It is this notion that any data that exists in the world, claimed or otherwise, they will claim for their own economic use. Again

Information & Ethics committee  Essentially, the problem here is the inversion of politics from the advocacy of a set of policies, and convincing people to join you on those policies, to an election where the number of campaigns is equal to the number of voters and you can use the micro-targeting to take these