Carleton University’s Initiative for Parliamentary and Diplomatic Engagement will host Artificial Intelligence, Democracy and Your Election – which will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy and election integrity, featuring opening remarks by the Honourable Karina Gould, minister of Democratic Institutions. The event will include an expert panel and a primer presentation by Prof. Merlyna Lim, Canada Research chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society in the School of Journalism and Communication.
Lim will be joined on the panel by Kevin Chan, global director and head of Public Policy Canada at Facebook; Prof. Matthew Hindman of the School of Media and Public Affairs (George Washington University) and author of The Myth of Digital Democracy and The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy; and Allan Rock, commissioner of the Transatlantic Commission on Electoral Integrity.
Media are invited to attend the event and are asked to register by contacting carletonrsvp@gmail.com.
When: Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, registration and lunch at 11:45 a.m.; Minister Gould will offer opening remarks at approximately 12:20 p.m.
Where: Sir John A. Macdonald Building, 144 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Info: This conversation is for parliamentarians, staffers, interested diplomats and stakeholders.
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment expects multiple hacktivist groups will “very likely” try to influence the 2019 federal election. Bot-led political campaigns that spread misinformation have flourished despite attempts at controlling them. The top fake news outlets on Twitter that were active during the 2016 U.S. election still operate today and deep-fake technology – the swapping of faces and voices in video – is now easier to make and harder to detect. The panel will discuss if Canada is prepared with deterrence strategies and contingency plans in order to protect our elections.
The panel is organized with the support of MPs Anita Vandenbeld (Ottawa West-Nepean), chair of the Democracy Caucus; Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore), shadow minister for Democratic Institutions; and Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley), NDP critic for Democratic Reform.
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Friday, February 15, 2019 in Media Advisories
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