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Professor Karen Eltis played a key role in the development of the “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Legal Practitioner” toolkit released by the Canadian Bar Association. The toolkit addresses the ethical, professional, and practical implications of using generative AI in the legal field.

Avec le Règlement européen sur l’IA, la norme de conformité CE est passée d’un outil de garantie de sécurité à un véhicule de protection des droits fondamentaux. Néanmoins, la logique du standard technique présente de nombreuses limites pour assurer une protection effective des droits.

A renowned scholar looking at the social and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies and their influence on society, Dr. Kelly Bronson has been renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Science and Society.

A renowned academic on the legal dimensions of artificial intelligence, Dr. Céline Castets-Renard has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence.

Automated tools for rental practices are promising convenience, objectivity and fairness. But can they avoid reproducing the deep structural inequity underpinning housing markets? In Australia and elsewhere, policymakers need to address the underlying political, social, and material conditions of these seemingly ‘objective’ automated tools.

The deployment of generative AI systems is raising fears of an increase in disinformation campaigns, particularly in the context of elections. The EU’s Digital Services Act could help limit some of these practices.

Prof. Karen Eltis has co-authored the Canadian Judicial Council’s new Artificial Intelligence Guidelines addressing the ethical considerations, opportunities, and challenges that artificial intelligence presents within the canadian judicial context.

On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, Prof. Vivek Krishnamurthy and Prof. Michael Pal were interviewed by the Foreign Interference Commission as part of their policy consultation hearings, contributing to the development of recommendations to address foreign interference in Canadian democratic processes.

Ronan Pons successfully defended his PhD in Law dissertation titled “La preuve en droit des systèmes d’intelligence artificielle”.

The European Commission has appointed Dr. Céline Castets-Renard as Vice-Chair (Copyright) of the Working Group on transparency and copyright-related rules to lead the development of the European Union’s first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.