This list is a resource to accompany the Basic Consultation Guide and Local Facilitation Guide.
For the purposes of this consultation, “artificial intelligence” (AI) is used to refer collectively to any technology or system currently considered to be “AI” or an AI-based technology or system, as well as any combination of such technologies or systems. Participants are strongly encouraged to avoid using the term “AI” wherever possible, and to name the specific type of technology or actual software company, model, or tool being discussed in each answer.
This list of examples is non-exhaustive, both in the categories presented and in the specific links suggested. It is not a complete or fully representative catalogue of all possible or even most use cases of AI, and provided only to illustrate existing uses of AI and prompt further thought.
UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGIES
“AI”-based programs and systems consist of many different kinds of technologies. We have listed some of the more ones below, and you can find a full glossary here: “AI Glossary/Dictionary” (MIT Media Lab)
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Neural Networks
- Large Language Models
ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
Content Moderation Algorithms
Education
- Here’s how ed-tech companies are pitching AI to teachers | MIT Technology Review
- Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Proctoring & AI Detection – BCcampus
- Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success – The Markup
Health Care Algorithms
- Algorithms Are Making Decisions About Health Care, Which May Only Worsen Medical Racism | ACLU
- How can we keep algorithmic racism out of Canadian health care’s AI toolkit? – The Globe and Mail
Hiring and Employment
- Upturn | Help Wanted: An Examination of Hiring Algorithms, Equity, and Bias
- Insight – Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
- AI is changing hiring, candidates are adapting – The Globe and Mail
Immigration and Refugee Applications
- AI Facial Recognition Technology in the Canadian Immigration System
- Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System – The Citizen Lab
- Artificial Intelligence in Immigration Practice: Why Our Files Now Meet the Algorithm First | Just. Magazine
Insurance Algorithms
- Suckers List: How Allstate’s Secret Auto Insurance Algorithm Squeezes Big Spenders – The Markup
- Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies – The New York Times
Pricing and Targeted Advertising
- The legal challenges raised by AI-powered algorithmic pricing
- The ethical use of AI in advertising | IAPP
Tenant-Screening and Algorithmic Rental Pricing
- A Landlord’s Dream and a Tenant’s Nightmare
- Automating housing (in)justice: The promise and limits of ‘fair’ rent tech | University of Ottawa
- Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents ⋆ The Breach
Welfare Benefits Allocation and “Fraud Detection”
- Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI | MIT Technology Review
- UK’s AI system for welfare fraud detection faces criticism over bias and transparency
- Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care | Upturn
GENERATIVE AI
AI Scribes: Medical Records and Police Reports
- Axon’s Draft One Is Designed to Defy Transparency | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Why family doctors across Canada are turning to AI scribes — and what it means for patients | CBC News
- AI bot sends confidential info to Ontario hospital patients after recording doctors’ meeting: IPC | Canadian HR Reporter
Image, Video, and Music Generators
- Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem – IEEE Spectrum
- Artists astound with AI-generated film stills from a parallel universe – Ars Technica
- When AI can make art – what does it mean for creativity? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
- Voice actors push back as AI threatens dubbing industry | Reuters
- Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. | Brookings
Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery
- AI-powered online abuse: How AI is amplifying violence against women and what can stop it
- Tackling the problem of AI revenge porn in Canada
- Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Research and Writing
- An Ontario judge tossed a court filing seemingly written with AI. Experts say it’s a growing problem | CBC News
- Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
- ChatGPT’s Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study | TIME
Social Media Photo / Video Filters
POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES
AI-enabled body-worn cameras
AI-enabled security and doorbell cameras
- Leamington to install AI-powered security cameras as part of waterfront safety strategy
- Amazon’s Ring launches AI-generated security alerts
Algorithmic Policing
- Algorithmic Policing in Canada Explained – The Citizen Lab
- Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance
Automated Licence Plate Readers
- Privacy Tech-Know Blog: Who’s Watching Where You’re Driving?
- Automated License Plate Readers
- 77 new automated license plate readers coming to Saskatchewan roads – Regina | Globalnews.ca
- Border Patrol’s monitoring of US drivers raises privacy concerns | Biometric Update
Biometric Surveillance
Drones
- Personal drones, AI and our privacy
- AI and thermal drones are helping find the lost in B.C.’s mountains | CBC News
- Drone Highways Are Coming to Canada’s Skies – Macleans.ca
Facial Recognition Technology
- Facial recognition explained: How is FRT used in Canada? – CCLA
- BC Supreme Court orders Clearview AI to stop collecting images of individuals in BC without consent | Lexpert
- News release: Cadillac Fairview collected 5 million shoppers’ images – Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Gunshot Detection Systems
Social Media Monitoring
SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Chatbots — Relationships and Mental Health
- ‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots | Podcasts | The Guardian
- It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot | MIT Technology Review
- Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care | Stanford HAI
- Your AI therapist is not your therapist: The dangers of relying on AI mental health chatbots
Chatbots — Dangers and Negative Impacts
- A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot. – CBS News
- Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves – BBC News
- Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse
- With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks?
- Episode 253: “AI Psychosis”: Emerging Cases of Delusion Amplification Associated with ChatGPT and LLM Chatbot Use – A Psychiatric Review
Companion and Social Robots
- Conversations with Alexa: How robots are helping Canada’s aging population connect – National | Globalnews.ca
- How AI social robots could support people living with dementia and their care providers – Beyond
- Your loneliness is our business: The multi-million-dollar industry of social isolation
- Meet Grace, the humanoid robot offering companionship in a Montreal nursing home | CBC News
- Cuddly robots charm B.C. seniors as researchers study benefits of AI pals in elder care | CBC News
- Preserving our humanity in the age of robots
Emotion Detection / Sentiment Analysis