Canadian AI Safety Institute convenes on AI risks to democracy with new research agenda
ZhijingJin · x · 2026-11-13
At the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CIFAR), researchers discussed AI's risks to democracy, with a whitepaper by Zhijing Jin and co-authors helping shape a new Canadian research agenda on AI & Democracy. Co-authors include Yoshua Bengio, Bernhard Schölkopf, Audrey Tang, Rada Mihalcea, and Stuart Russell. The workshop used a World Café format covering themes such as synthetic media & electoral integrity, algorithmic polarization, AI inside public institutions, and societal-scale change.
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