Members of the media may directly contact the following uOttawa academic experts:
Karen Eltis (English and French)
Full Professor, Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section, and faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
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Professor Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence law and cyberlaw from a comparative perspective, including its use and impact on the Canadian court system. Her areas of interest touch on digital sovereignty and AI deployment in the justice system.
“With the advent of next generation of internet of things and smart home devices, AI leaders had pointed to fears of catastrophic attacks on infrastructure and had shared these concerns prior to this very cyber incident. These events bring these issues into sharper focus for regulators.
“It could undermine trust and increase workload in the courts which, as democratic institutions, are spontaneously entering into unregulated partnerships with multinational companies, whose mission is to commercialize data, in the face of a shortage of resources and growing pressure to unclog the courts.”
David Murakami Wood (English and French)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies and Full Professor, Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Professor Murakami Wood is a faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society whose research focuses on surveillance, security and technology from a global urban perspective.
“These actions demonstrate how we have become too dependent on networking objects and infrastructures. Basically, once we start connecting things that fundamentally do not need to be connected, or in ways that do not need to be connected, then it’s always a matter of when not if those systems are going to be hacked. Add in AI as a factor, and it becomes multiple times worse. Whether we are governments, services, businesses, or just ordinary people, we’ve got to stop listening to platform corporations and big internet companies and think more strategically about connection.”