Furthering AI Research & Ethics – Towards A Digital Rights Agenda For Ontario

As technology brings about disruption across sectors, the provincial and federal governments kick off a series of initiatives to address its increasingly important role in society. Summer 2018 was vibrant on the technology front. In June, Canada's Prime Minister hosted the G7 Summit where world leaders committed to develop a "common vision of human-centric AI". Shortly thereafter, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced the launch of the National Digital and Data Consultations with a view to discussing how the country should drive technology innovation and handle the legal and ethical issues in that regard.

With Canada well-positioned as an innovation leader, governments, policymakers, think tanks, profit and non-profit organizations alike may want to get acquainted with what is happening at each stage of the development of our digitalized society.