Not sure how this study on AI risks came to be. But to address your point about whether there is anything going on in Canada: AI Governance and Safety Canada (AIGS) has been coordinating advocacy and offering policy recommendations around AI safety for a few years now. Two of the witnesses, Andrea Miotti and Wyatt Tessari L’Allié, mentioned in Steven McCulloch’s comment are from AIGS. One of the witnesses from the ETHI proceedings is Wyatt Tessari L’Allié of AIGS.
(Correction: Andrea Miotti is from Control AI, not AIGS.)
Interesting. Why did this happen? I know of ai safety lobbing in US but is there anything going on in Canada? I doubt it happened out of the blue
Not sure how this study on AI risks came to be. But to address your point about whether there is anything going on in Canada: AI Governance and Safety Canada (AIGS) has been coordinating advocacy and offering policy recommendations around AI safety for a few years now.
Two of the witnesses, Andrea Miotti and Wyatt Tessari L’Allié, mentioned in Steven McCulloch’s comment are from AIGS.One of the witnesses from the ETHI proceedings is Wyatt Tessari L’Allié of AIGS.(Correction: Andrea Miotti is from Control AI, not AIGS.)
My guess is that this is posturing to threaten an economic strike on American tech, in coördination with Europe.