• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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      This isn’t inherently an issue. I mean, it’s the Liberals, so it probably is, but having a minister whose role is to actually sit down and critically learn about the topic, and report back to cabinet would be great.

      It’ll probably be a role focused on figuring out which specific confidence game to invest in, but it could be so much better than that.

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          Yeah, it should be the Ministry of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technology or something. A whole ministry just for AI feels like a misstep via an unnecessarily narrow focus.

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          Depends on what the goal ends up being. If they try to create (and actuallyenforce) some regulations around AI, I could see that being an endeavor that would occupy a full time position.

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            Carney has spoken a lot about using AI to lower the operating costs of government. I don’t think the minister is there strictly to regulate.

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              Yep, the goal of this ministry will be to replace public servants.

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                  Nah DOGE has never been about efficiency, it’s just plain old cutting services by making institutions dysfunctional.

                  Not that the results of replacing public servants with AI with give wildly different results, but at least it’s going to be ridiculously slow and expensive so it’s easier to rollback

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          Well to be fair it’s:

          Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

          It’s still embarrassing to throw AI in there.

          Really what we need is a Minister of (dis)Information to stop foreign tech companies from fucking us over so much.

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      What do you mean? I’m sure the minister of artificial intelligence will do a fine job, working closely with the minister of cryptocurrency and the minister of cloud experiences to engage transformative leverage in a way that will enhance governance innovation.