The federal NDP has called the Carney government’s new artificial-intelligence strategy, announced the previous week, “reckless and inadequate.” NDP MP Don Davies said Canadians had been expecting guardrails on the technology but instead received a “superficial” strategy that, in his words, mouths “the lines of tech billionaires.”
Davies said AI can deliver benefits to all Canadians but, left unchecked, can also cause harm — arguing that “AI is driving mass surveillance; it’s facilitating fraud, it’s threatening jobs. It consumes huge amounts of water and energy, and it targets the most vulnerable in our society, including children and seniors.”
He called on the federal government to scrap the current policy and develop what he described as a “humans-first AI strategy” — “one that protects Canadian communities, Canadian jobs, Canadian small business and Canadian natural resources.”
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