International co-operation key to harnessing AI for good
The inaugural Global AI Safety Summit on Nov. 1-2 is a chance to share understanding of the risks posed by frontier artificial intelligence and the need for action to mitigate them.
Canadians demand privacy, transparency, and personal data control to build trust
People must have confidence and control over their identity data, and on the flip side, they must have evidence that their privacy, security and choices are secured.
‘The devil’s in the details, and we don’t have any’: critics, civil liberties groups decry feds’ lack of clarity on changes to privacy and AI bill
NDP MP Brian Masse calls the wait for the full text of the government’s amendments to Bill C-27 ‘disrespectful’ and an example of the ‘laziness’ that has been the Liberals’ ‘mortal and systemic weakness.’
AI is not intelligent and needs regulation now
The iterative nature of artificial intelligence means that without meaningful regulation, it will become easier for the average person to have the power to cause very serious public harm, should they so wish.
Are Canadians suffering a crisis of trust?
A new scholarly network will explore how engineers, scientists, and researchers can find ways of embedding trust into the technologies they are currently building.
Greater support needed for invisible majority of Canadian women in STEM
Immigrant women make up the majority of Canada’s women in STEM, but they experience higher unemployment, underemployment, and wage gap rates than their peers.
Canada’s innovation economy strategy must include the blockchain revolution
Blockchain and artificial intelligence can work together to transform our economy, provide transparency, and benefit Canadians in many areas.
Semiconductors: the forgotten (but essential) green technology
The ubiquitous microchips that power applications ranging from your smartphone to telecommunications and defence infrastructure can also be instrumental in getting us to green and clean.
AI IQ: safeguarding elections requires more oversight to thwart voter manipulation, say expert, Senator
Federal parties’ resistance to creating uniform privacy policies leaves voter information vulnerable to election interference by foreign actors who could feed it into generative-AI tools, says ISG Senator Colin Deacon.
Three ways federal transparency is threatened
Hiding artificial intelligence use, automatically incorporating regulations by reference, and using non-disclosure agreements all allow a creep towards government opacity.
