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After a month of chatter on quotidian language etiquette, it’s uplifting to see Montreal’s avant-garde technologists boosting Quebec’s international credibility by tackling more serious matters, like the future of labour as we know it.

Montreal is among a select group of cities leading in the development of artificial intelligence, and industry actors locally are among a smaller set attempting to develop an ethical framework for the technology.

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“In the past two months, we’ve had six new AI labs open in Montreal,” McGill University AI ethics researcher Abhishek Gupta said last weekend. “It makes complete sense we would also be the ones who would help guide the discussion on how to do it ethically.”

Gupta hosts a bi-weekly gathering where stakeholders discuss ethical concerns related to the propagation of AI. Last month, he and peers in the field, in conjunction with Université de Montréal, released a working document, the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.