Academic, author and podcast host exploring how digital technologies are reshaping democratic societies and how they should be governed.
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at McGill University. Founding Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. Host of Machines Like Us.
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View all →After OpenAI's failure to report a shooter's flagged conversations to law enforcement, the instinct is to demand mandatory reporting. But the better path is upstream regulation that changes how these products are built.
New research from our centre measures how AI models handle Canadian news. The findings: no source attribution 82% of the time — and the evidence suggests this is a design choice, not a technical limitation.
OpenAI's voluntary commitments to Minister Solomon are welcome but reinforce the case for legislation. Plus, a conversation with The Decibel on why online harms and AI consumer safety are one problem.
After OpenAI flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter's conversations but didn't alert Canadian law enforcement, Helen Hayes and I sent a memo to Ministers Solomon and Miller arguing that AI chatbots must be scoped into the forthcoming Online Harms Act.
Opening statement before the House Standing Committee on Science and Research on AI, drawing on my submission to the National AI Strategy Task Force.