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Canadians are being sold a false narrative about how to “win the AI race.” This race, we are told, is somehow crucial to the Canadian economy in its current unregulated form. Yet no government has put to the people whether we want to run such a race. AI has the dystopian capability to disrupt the global economy and extinguish the traditional forms of human labour. Without penalties for misuse, intellectual property attribution rights, and security checks, the Canadian people could rapidly find themselves in an out-of-work, out-of-control situation where the only major actors left in the marketplace are a host of AI corporations that funnel money to all political parties to ensure friendly governments through controlled primaries. If the prize at the end of this race is 20 – 50% of the workforce unemployable, cratered home prices, social instability, and an oligarchy of tech companies, I want to stop running.

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