LA&PS associate professor and AI expert Jennifer Pybus has been quoted in an article for City News about a new artificial intelligence (AI) task force created by the Liberal government. The article features input from academics across the country about the task force’s potential issues. In the article, Pybus says she would have liked to see more civic partners or humanities-based scholars on the task force and comments on the fact that most of Canada’s AI compute and data storage capacity sits within American-based companies.
Jennifer Pybus is associate professor in the Department of Politics and Canada research chair in data, democracy and AI. She received her PhD from McMaster University. Her research interests include communications, information technologies, social AI, platform politics, datafication, dataveillance and privacy.
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