Information & Ethics committee  It's a resounding no. As I mentioned, we take ethics very seriously in the design of any of our algorithmic systems. This was definitely not a use case that would have come across our desk at RBC.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll focus my comments on AI regulation broadly. Right now in Canada, we lack an end-to-end regulation, and there are several changes that need to be made. I'll point you in the direction of a recent framework published by the EU Commission—this is a draft framework, but it's ver

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's going to be a very difficult one to answer quickly, but one thing I will maybe suggest that you look into is this concept of ethics by design, which is essentially taking ethical considerations throughout your development cycle from initial data collection through

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. It's very interesting and it actually highlights, I would say, some challenges with other technologies that we have. NIST has done very comprehensive studies, and I encourage you to review their reports, in which they have looked at various different

Information & Ethics committee  Clearview AI is one of the concerning cases. What is so concerning about it is that they have scraped mass amounts of data. It is linked to individuals' identities and this is being used in contexts where the ultimate outcome can be very severe for individuals. I think we have to

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the introduction, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for inviting me to participate as a witness on the topic of the use and impact of facial recognition technology. As noted, my name is Dr. Alex LaPlante. I am the senior director of product and business devel