Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics

Opening remarks

Thank you for your question. It's a really interesting one that I'll try to tackle in a couple of ways. One is that it's super-important that we recognize the import at this time of pursuing research into AI safety and evaluation mechanisms to be able to understand the underlying mechanisms and potential for harms within algorithms. That's at the heart of the Canadian AI safety institute and at the heart of our work with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in their role in the Canadian AI safety institute: It's to be able to advance the science that's helping us know how actual AI algorithms and advanced AI systems are playing out and to help create evaluative mechanisms that are going to assist developers and deployers to test effectively what the potential vulnerabilities and harms are in relation to their systems. That's one important piece. The second is that it's super-important that we also continue to advance international efforts toward the ways that standardization can assist industry and provide certainty to industry in ensuring that there are effective mechanisms they can readily tell their users and their customers that they are complying with to ensure…