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New (co-written) from me: The Canadian government’s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new technologies

Posted on August 17, 2023 by bhaggart

Over at The Conversation, co-written with Natasha Tusikov. In which we express our ongoing frustration with what, at this point, can only be described as the federal government’s refusal to conduct meaningful public consultations on data-governance issues. The government’s just-announced … Continue reading →

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New from me: Truth-Agnostic Chatbots Show the Need for a Search Alternative

Posted on March 13, 2023 by bhaggart

Over at CIGI. Is it a problem that search engine companies, whose only job is to return information that people can trust and use, have hitched their wagon to a technology that produces falsehoods? Yes. Yes it is. If companies … Continue reading →

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