This concluding session provides an overview of the course’s key insights concerning the benefits and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), its regulation, and the broad societal implications of the widespread adoption of AI. It also offers insights regarding the future of use of AI in government, including how AI will affect the work of public servants and the differences in how AI will be used by democratic vs. autocratic states.

Speaker: Peter Loewen, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; Associate Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute.

About this series:
Artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, playing an increasingly larger role in our lives, and transforming every sector from medicine to finance to law and far beyond. We often read about both the great promise of AI and its negative consequences. But what really is AI? How can AI advance human welfare by improving health, education, sustainability, equality and inclusion, access to justice, and more? What do we need to do to ensure that AI is built for public benefit, and how can we mitigate the harm AI can cause? To respond to these questions, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society partnered with Canada School of Public Service to present “Artificial Intelligence is Here,” an eight-part series designed to explain what AI is, where it’s headed, and what workers in the public sector need to know about it.