On Wednesday, François-Philippe Champagne announced details of a voluntary code of conduct for the AI industry that aims to mitigate the potential risks posed by the technology.
“Canada is a global AI leader, among the top countries in the world, and Canadians have created many of the world’s top AI innovations. At the same time, Canada takes the potential risks of AI seriously.”The code, which is not legally binding, focuses on six “core principles” it hopes the major players in the Canadian AI industry will adopt: accountability, safety, fairness and equity, transparency, human oversight and monitoring, and validity and robustness.
In a news conference Wednesday in Montreal, Champagne said that a number of Canadian AI developers had already signed the code of conduct, including BlackBerry, OpenText, Cohere and Coveo.