CanCon Podcast Ep. 94: Can Canada be a leader against killer AI?

For weeks now, we’ve been covering Amazon’s incursion into Canada, from the retail giant’s lobbying efforts to the fever dream proposals for HQ2. Today, we’re actually able to talk about Amazon’s tech, as a bevvy of products has finally found its way north of the border. Which ones should Canadians care most about?

For a year, Canada has been trumpeting our AI talent to anyone who will listen, with a great response from the global tech giants, notably Microsoft and Google. Now, Canada’s AI talent is petitioning the Prime Minister to take a leadership role in banning killer AI. Can a government that’s been promoting the resources “between our ears” make a case to the world that they shouldn’t be used for autonomous murder-machines?

Tune in as CanCon’s podcast crew – Patrick O’Rourke, MobileSyrup Senior Editor; Erin Bury, Managing Director of Eighty-Eight; Rob Kenedi, TWG’s General Manager in New York and host of the amazing #smallrooms podcast; and Douglas Soltys, BetaKit Editor-in-Chief – as it rolls through oodles of new Amazon tech launches in Canada before asking you to sign its AI petition.

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