Industry committee  Go ahead.

Industry committee  I would just add that I think it's a good starting place, but especially in proposed paragraph 11(1)(a), respecting the usage of data, I think there would be advantages to including a disclosure mechanism to be able to understand how the data was labelled and how it was used. I t

Industry committee  Yes, I can.

Industry committee  Without commenting specifically on what came out, I can mention that generating artificial intelligence, which is taking up more and more space in the current conversation, can generate texts as plausible as those that human beings would write. It certainly puts our democracy at

Industry committee  It's a great question. What I would say is that, first, while AI systems look very impressive to consumers, millions of people on a daily basis are working behind the scenes to make them work. That spans from our interactions with social media to automated decision-making system

Industry committee  That's a great question. I have no experience with artificial intelligence in war or defence situations. I can just comment on that as a sophisticated citizen. I think we need a very clear framework that takes into account the rules of war that have already been established. Un

Industry committee  Essentially, when we look at artificial intelligence, there are many steps in that. The first step is collecting data for an AI system. The second step is annotating that data. For example, if you have an image where you see a nose and eyes, there is somebody annotating that. T

Industry committee  Essentially, I think it's important to have legislation in place, because we need to start protecting the citizens who are interacting with AI systems. We also need to hold accountable companies that are building AI systems and ensure that they're not using practices that are ag

Industry committee  It would have a—

Industry committee  Yes. I would just add that it is common practice within the AI development world to actually detail instructions for both data collection and data annotation. Including any reference to child labour or forced labour would have a tremendous impact on making sure that that would be

Industry committee  I would say that the AI act in itself is extremely important. As was mentioned by other witnesses today, AI systems already have an impact on people's lives, and their development is just increasing in speed. I would be very favourable to seeing legislation that at least sets the

Industry committee  It's an excellent question. The purpose of the group is to bring world-renowned experts and policy-makers together around the table to actually think about the practical applications of artificial intelligence. One of the artifacts that recently came out from the working group

Industry committee  There are two aspects to consider. The first one is how it's impacting work today in Canada and beyond. That's the first element. Then, how will it impact society and the place of work, going forward? If we think about today, we see there are millions of people who actually wor

Industry committee  The first amendment that I would recommend is to have a disclosure on the supply chain to ensure that we can decide on the usage of ethical AI that does not have forced labour or child labour in it. Right now the leading jurisdiction is the EU, where we see that companies we're w

Industry committee  Thank you, members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Alexandre Shee. I'm the incoming co-chair of the future of work working group of the Global Partnership on AI, of which Canada is a member state. I'm an executive at a multinational AI c