Information & Ethics committee  No, I wouldn't agree with that. The work under project Nimbus is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads that are relevant to weapons or intelligence services. When it comes to our AI systems and products, all of our AI [Technical difficulty—Editor] products are anchored in our AI principles, which we were a leader in publishing in 2018, so we've been thinking about responsible AI development for a very long time.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I can't speak to the specifics in that contract or how—

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I'll turn to my colleague, Shane Huntley, because again, this is not a project that I'm an expert on.

Information & Ethics committee  Google is committed to respecting an approach to all of our products and services that puts user safety and privacy at the forefront.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not in a position to be able to answer that.

Information & Ethics committee  When it comes to project Nimbus, it's not a contract with which I'm personally familiar. Google has said publicly that it is a project related to workloads that run on our commercial platform by Israeli government ministries such as finance, health care, transportation and education.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this because [Technical difficulty—Editor] more important than keeping children safe. At Google and YouTube, in addition to the similar activities of the other platforms in detecting and removing this content, we are also leaders in providing hashes of that content to NCMEC and then freely providing those hashes to other platforms, so that this content cannot be recirculated on other platforms.

Information & Ethics committee  We take our responsibility very seriously. It is our number one priority to provide a responsible and safe platform for all of our users.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not certain about the precise wording. I would say that we have recognized our responsibility to all partners and users on our platform to have a safe platform for all—

Information & Ethics committee  Our responsibility is to all of our partners, whether that is our creators on YouTube, the users of YouTube or advertisers on YouTube. We have built a model where responsibility underpins the entire framework. That is really at its core, how we keep our platform safe for everyone, whether they're in Canada or around the world.

Information & Ethics committee  With devices, they will all have individual settings, so people can make the choices that are right for them. I think your question was whether the audio could be stored. Is that correct?

Information & Ethics committee  I think I'll need to get back to you on that.

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I'll speak to two things here. First, pornography is not allowed on YouTube. Any sexually explicit content or nudity is not allowed on YouTube. That violates our community guidelines. For—

Information & Ethics committee  We publish quarterly transparency reports. We break down the reasons for which we would be removing any content. Yes, we would be removing sexually explicit content or content where there is nudity. That would be one of the areas where we are enforcing our policies. I think it's important to note that over 90% of the time, that violative content is first detected by our machines.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I'm actually going to turn to my colleague [Technical difficulty—Editor].