TORONTO — One year after Canada launched a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, tech organizations that signed on say they don't regret the decision but wouldn't mind some more company.
While many in the group now totalling 30 say they were content spending the last year collaborating with household names and tech heavyweights on an issue of growing importance, they also believe the more, the merrier. "Significant players in the AI ecosystem continue to express their interest in signing the code and we’ll be ready to announce another round of signatories soon," she wrote in an email on Sept. 11.
When Gutiw reviewed the tenets of the code, she found a lot of overlap with CGI's own principles, so she said the company was "quite comfortable signing." "It wasn't clear to us or to anybody else what the priorities were going to be for different governments," Cohere's Starostin said.