Authors
Contributors
- Karen Birkemoe
- Krista Davidson
- Meghan Hellstern
- Nisa Malli
- Heather Russek
- Alison Smiley
- Jessica Thomson
- Erin Warner
- Soraya Zidane
Rebooting Regulation: Exploring the Future of AI Policy in Canada
May 2019
Executive Summary
In 2018, CIFAR and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E) launched a series of five workshops to engage policy innovators in conversations about the public policy implications of artificial intelligence (AI). This series brought together over 125 policymakers from across Canada to learn about existing and potential AI capabilities and applications, explore the policy implications of AI, and develop policy responses.
In each of the workshops, participants developed a variety of policy recommendations to respond to a specific case study. Across all of the workshops, recommendations clustered in the following areas:
- Addressing the future of work
- AI anti-trust mechanisms
- Consumer protection
- Data governance
- Public education and consultation
- Encouraging responsible innovation
- AI regulation and legislation
Throughout the series, CIFAR and BII+E continually improved the facilitation methods and materials, which will be launched in an open source format in fall 2019. Additional opportunities include furthering technical and policy capacity building in the policy sector, and encouraging organizations and groups within the AI community to engage across sectors and include diverse perspectives.