Hi Marita. Great work bringing this together.
I suggest a change to the line on Intellectual property (which to me is a
big deal that needs to be addressed urgently):
*Reimage Intellectual Property:* Engage both nationally and
internationally to modernize copyright, patent and trade-secret-protection
policy to balance the needs and interests of innovators, technologists and
the public. Choose approaches that reward human creativity while demanding
transparency and accountability from models, tuning methods and algorithms.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM Marita Moll <mmoll(a)ca.inter.net> wrote:
Hello all. Our AI paper is long but there is a recommendation section
at
the end which I have reproduced below. Please take a look at what has ended
up there and let me know if this resonates with you or are there things
that need changing.
1.
*Do you have specific recommendations for lawmakers, policymakers, or
anyone else in a position of power (e.g., school boards, employers, law
enforcement, journalists) to implement when it comes to any of the things
you discussed above? If so, explain them here.*
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*Engage in multistakeholder collaboration to manage risks
internationally**: *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. What
emerges must remain consistent with agreed upon values. Government, private
sector, civil society and collaborative technical communities should agree
on collectively managing the risks and setting the rules and standards
around AI.
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*Reduce foreign dependency by focussing on Canadian innovation and
content: * The world of AI will increasingly feed upon itself. We
can't stop this but at least we could try to mitigate this by having some
models created in Canada. We would recommend an approach that advocates for
the leveraging of Canada's own considerable expertise in AI with the need
for digital sovereignty, attention to accuracy, lower barriers to access,
and the use of open source models to maximize transparency. It could make
access to AI models not controlled by foreign bodies available to more
people. Canada has the resources to do this, but has not yet started work
in this area. This is all the more important as the growing call for more
regulation and rules around AI are well meaning but directed to
megacorporations based elsewhere over whom our power is extremely limited.
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*Support community-based digital infrastructure models: *In the face
of AI domination by foreign behemoths, Canada should encourage the
development of decentralized, localized AI models and infrastructures
that can be better managed and trained from trustworthy sources.
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A*ctively support open access and open source projects: *Canada should
welcome the efforts of various actors in providing open access and open
source AI models, and indeed it should contribute to this pool of
knowledge, Just as the internet runs best (and maybe could only run) on
open source software such as Linux, AI needs more openness and transparency
as a matter of both public trust and regulation enforceability.
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*Support national education programs:* 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.
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*Assess environmental impacts: *Require environmental impact
disclosures for large-scale AI infrastructure.
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*Reimage intellectual property: *Support discussions, national and
international, to reestablish a mechanism for copyright recognition in the
world of large language models.
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*Seek out and support community focussed AI users/groups: * As AI
evolves, there are people and groups (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. All new
communication technologies have passed through such an early adaptor phase
when communal benefits were emphasized. This is where public broadcasting
originated and community networks focused on social action which emerged
well before corporations saw that demand for internet access was an
economic opportunity.
Thanks
Marita
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