The highlight of this article is the link to all the expert reports submitted to the Canadian government (44 Mb zip) informing its AI consultation. Michael Geist suggests at once that "the experts took their mandate seriously and provided candid, action-oriented advice" while "the direct advice from the experts that identifies policy choices and their implications is consistently softened into 'government-speak' with balancing discussion that creates an illusion of consensus that isn't really there." So, business as usual. On the issue of trust and safety, especially, was "a major concern from the public responses and the government is likely headed toward making AI governance, audits, transparency, and risk-based regulation key elements of its AI strategy," though "there is far less consensus in the expert reports... Some want to move quickly, while others warn that overly broad regulation will slow deployment, disadvantage domestic firms, and regulate technologies Canada does not control. Those disagreements largely disappear in the government's summary."
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