11:48 a.m.
Thanks Garth for giving the doc. a thorough read. I will work in your
suggestions. Yes, it took me quite a while to put that together. With so
many parts and similiar questions, it was easy to lose the thread. For
others who wish to comment, I will have to submit this next week. So
there is not a lot of time.
Marita
On 2026-03-04 9:45 p.m., Garth Graham wrote:
On Mar 4, 2026, at 7:58 AM, Marita Moll <mmoll(a)ca.inter.net>
wrote:
> ...and I invite you to add comments, corrections, suggestions for additions so I can
incorporate them.
Whew! And a complex task well done.
I’ve scanned through the document, flagging ideas I thought could lead to actions, and
then comparing them with the section on recommendations. Here’s three possible additions
to the recommendations section ….
1. Canada should take a leadership role in advocating for multistakeholder
governance and collaboration at the international level in the development and use of this
transformative technology. So that what emerges remains consistent with agreed upon
values, government, private sector, civil society and any collaborative technical
communities that come into view should agree on collectively managing the risks and
setting the rules and standards around AI.
2. In the section on recommendations, it now says:
Support national education programs: Invest in public AI literacy to strengthen informed
participation in democratic oversight and public ability to use AI tools in a safe and
effective manner.
I’d suggest revising it as follows:
Invest in public AI literacy and increased awareness. To strengthen informed
participation in democratic oversight and public ability to use AI tools in a safe and
effective manner, support national education programs and new spaces for discussion of its
long-term effects.
3. Seek out change agents and create forums for them to share their experience. As
AI evolves, there are people (early adopters) who will embrace AI’s nature on its own
terms and use it imaginatively to beneficially evolve themselves and their relationships
with those around them. Because they have reframed their perspectives more rapidly than
others, they will tend to operate in spaces that are interstitial to existing
socio-economic organizational structures. For example, in the early 1990s, community
networks focused on social action emerged well before corporations saw that demand for
Internet access was an economic opportunity But, this time out, any resulting action for
change will need to anticipate resistance from existing socioeconomic organizational
structures
Under the heading of what next? – Perhaps TC should have our own discussion of the
particular actions we might take?
GG