House of Commons: Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs
What does the committee's Evidence document about testimony on accountability for AI-generated content and AI agents?
Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, McGill University, answered questions from Kelly Block, on AI-generated content, and from Braeden Caley, on AI agents.
What the Record Contains
Accountability for AI-generated content
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Answering Kelly Block: "To be perfectly clear, right now, we don't—at all—have a single mechanism to do that," referring to holding companies accountable "when things like the Tumbler Ridge tragedy happen."
Accountability for AI agents
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Answering Braeden Caley: "In my view, that accountability function clearly has to fall on the entity, person or corporation that builds the product that is acting in our society." And: "Is it a liability? Is it a regulatory infrastructure? What is it? I think we're in the middle of that conversation. We're certainly not at the end of it."
- Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, House of Commonscommittee holding the hearing
- McGill Universityinstitution of a witness
- ?What any particular mechanism would have prevented.
- ?Which accountability mechanism will be adopted.