Artificial Intelligence: Quebec offers an international Observatory

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Friday, 9 march 2018 08:10

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Paris | Québec proposes to create a global Organization of artificial intelligence (Omia) to work on the societal challenges and ethical implications of this technology, said Friday in Paris of the leaders of the government of quebec on a visit to a French start-up.

The quebec government will propose to allocate funds in the next budget of the province of canada for work on this project, indicated to AFP the minister of international Relations and Francophonie, Christine St-Pierre.

“We still do not have the exact model”, but it is to do a “global organization that will combine together as many of the policies that the people of the civil society, researchers, academics” to work on the “consequences of artificial intelligence” on the company, and that would be “very geared toward the ethical,” she said.

This would be to establish a sort of “control tower” of the artificial intelligence, could “reassure the population” that is likely to sometimes feel threatened by the future uses of this new technology, she explained.

Montreal already hosts 65 international agencies including the world anti-doping Agency and the IATA, the world Association of air transport, she argues.

The prime minister Philippe Couillard and Ms. Saint-Pierre has evoked this project of world Organization of the artificial intelligence during a visit to Paris in the premises of the young shoot Snips, specialist wizards voice.

They were accompanied by the French secretary of State for the Digital Mounir Mahjoubi, and the deputy Cédric Villani, who must submit at the end of march the government of the French prime minister Édouard Philippe a report in the highly anticipated artificial intelligence.