[Read: ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead][Read Dan Bilefsky’s 2019 Saturday Profile of Yoshua Bengio: He Helped Create A.I. “We succeeded in regulating nuclear weapons on a global scale after World War II, we can reach a similar agreement for A.I.”Canada is a far ways from signing legislation, which is expected to be in effect no earlier than 2025. There are several more months needed to settle on regulations for the bill, C-27, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, which was introduced last June. In the near term, Canadian privacy regulators are currently at work investigating an unspecified complaint into whether the chatbot ChatGPT inappropriately collects, uses or discloses the data of Canadians without the proper consent. On Thursday, the federal privacy commissioner’s office announced that its provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta would be joining the investigation.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2023 14:53 UTC