Why leading the way in ethical AI is crucial

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

An opinion piece in The Globe and Mail takes a look at the role Waterloo Region and the country needs to play in ethical artificial intelligence (AI).  

Mary Wells, the University of Waterloo's dean of engineering, and Mark Giesbrecht, the University of Waterloo's dean of math, and Chris Albinson, Communitech's chief executive officer and president, discuss the opportunity to lead the world "in creating and commercializing applied, ethical artificial intelligence, which will be critical to meeting the other big, gnarly, global challenges bearing down on us." 

Read On ethical AI, the world is calling – and it’s time for Canada to answer originally published in the Globe and Mail's Report on Business for the full opinion piece.