Report by Trevor Potts: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how governments gather evidence, analyze information, and make decisions. In recent years, the Government of Canada has rapidly deployed new AI technologies and tools across the federal public service. While new technologies ostensibly promise improved efficiency and productivity, their deployment hasraised serious questions around perceived lack of transparency, gaps in regulation, implementation challenges, and potential for misuse and biased decision-making.
This project aims to explore how AI is reshaping evidence usage in the federal public service, and the implications AI usage has on federal policymaking and public trust in Canadian democracy…(More)”.