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CHARBONNEAU – Like all machines, AI must conform to us

ONE THING I LEARNED from a course I took in industrial design is that tools, machinery and furniture should be designed to work for us. We wouldn’t buy an uncomfortable chair just because the salesperson told us we would get used to it. There’s a lot of hype around artificial intelligence and how we need to adjust to it or be left behind — bamboozled and dominated by it. Canadians are being labelled as backward for resisting “a culture of openness to technological change.” An IPSOS survey of 28 countries found that Canadians are among the most negative toward AI – only the French fared worse. We are not negative, we are cautious. We sensibly question a product that aims to pour money into the pockets of Big Tech. I am not a Luddite. Technology has improved our lives when we adopt it. Prof. Marcel O’Gorman, director of the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo, warns that AI is a product of Big Tech that wants us to get used to AI. He says: “While an impatient AI economy bears down on Canadian policy makers, businesses and individuals, Canadians should be demanding opportunities for AI adoption that do [...]

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CHARBONNEAU – Like all machines, AI must conform to us

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