Natasha Tusikov, associate professor in the Department of Social Science, has cowritten an article in Policy Options about the rising threat of authoritarianism in the U.S and how this affects AI strategy. The Canadian government recently announced a 30-day sprint for reviewing AI policy. The authors argue this is not enough time given the complexity of the issue and Canada’s heavy reliance on U.S technology infrastructure. They also highlight how using AI-based technologies in our public sector could pose a threat to Canada’s democratic institutions. Certain AI technologies, like Generative AI, have outputs that cannot be trusted and should not be employed to deliver critical public services.
Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology and regulation. She is a senior fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo and a visiting fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research interests include information technologies, crime, law and technology, private security industry, regulatory theory and criminology.
Read the full article in Policy Options.