Canada has unveiled its long-awaited national AI strategy, but experts say key questions around regulation, privacy, and accountability remain unanswered. Can Ottawa translate its AI ambitions into public confidence? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan/
Labour's Baroness Smith announces an AI conversation tool to help jobseekers find jobs in a market where people are worried about losing jobs to AI
So AI bot doing the job of job coaches at job centres, to help job seekers find jobs being replaced by AI 🤷♂️
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
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The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
so cool that the canadian government plans to spend billions of dollars to encourage people to use not just a bullshit machine, but a mass death and suicide machine
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Paris Marx
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
Have those leading the charge not read Ewert v Canada? Or perhaps Parliament will amend correctional services legislation so that reliable evidence is no longer required for decisions affecting incarcerated folks. Admin justice, procedural fairness, substantive equality are all seemingly abandoned.
Was struck by this from @sphillipsab.bsky.social in her commentary on the federal government's moves on AI and online harms.
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I'll bet this "consultation's" results are not evaluated by civil servants but, instead, will be "summarized" by the same LLMs used in last fall's AI sprint. Why even bother with this performance, except to manufacture consent? I suspect @starlingcentre.bsky.social experts have insights.
Omar Sakr
*weeping* Please, no more. Please stop putting unless “AI” into random things. Please, have mercy. Let me just have analogue pants. Please?
@mark-carney.bsky.social this so-called public consultation breaks every rule of balanced polling the main question lists all so-called benefits and none of the detriments. It is a biased push-poll. I expected better form this government
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I think I speak for everyone when I ask how this will be used to sell advertisements.
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Toronto-based start-up Aurmada is designing AI-enhanced clothing that it hopes will help those wearing it monitor everything from their gait to how close someone is standing, part of a budding wearabl...
These technologies are always tested first on our most vulnerable populations. Great reporting that succinctly gets to the problems with using genAI to decide people’s fates, and the “naive”/ignorant government thinking behind its use.
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Mentioned in lengthy documents tabled in Parliament and confirmed by Correctional Service Canada, the test run comes as the Carney government tries to ramp up AI adoption.
