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President Trump’s 2025 executive order about ‘woke AI’ put the tech industry on notice about aligning with the administration’s views. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line

Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the Aga Khan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in May 2016. A few months later, he vacationed on the Aga Khan’s island in the Bahamas and was found to have violated conflict-of-interest laws. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

As a federal election campaign looms, Canadians must demand stronger ethics laws from politicians

If trust in government matters to Canadians, then ethics issues must be kept in public view and political parties pressured to offer meaningful reform ideas in their campaign and party platforms.

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