***We asked ChatGPT to write us a joke about AI regulation. Our listeners can decide whether ChatGPT is funny enough! This is what it came up with: Just saw a robot doing the Electric Slide while reading the latest AI regulation proposals. Looks like they’re trying to find their groove with those rules. Can’t wait for the next dance move, the ‘Data Shuffle’!

Are Canadian policy makers ready for the AI revolution? How effective are our current regulations? And, what should we be worried about? AND, are immigrants going to save our economy, or break it? From controversial rhetoric, a housing crisis, and more…How can we navigate this immigration conversation?

Host:  Riley Yesno

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guests: Meagan Simpson, Nicholas Keung, David Moscrop

Background reading:

• How will Canada regulate AI? Ottawa will figure it out later – The Globe and Mail
• The race to regulate artificial intelligence – The Decibel
• Pierre Poilievre is courting voters by capitalizing on immigration fears in Quebec – Toronto Star
• A new era of immigration politics has started in Canada – The Hub
• No, immigration is not some magic pill for saving the economy – The Globe and Mail
• Pierre Poilievre is courting voters by capitalizing on immigration fears in Quebec – Toronto Star
• Immigrants make up the largest share of the population in over 150 years and continue to shape who we are as Canadians – The Daily 
• Why the argument that immigration is the sole cause of soaring home prices is flawed – The Financial Post
• Rural Ontario needs to learn cultural acceptance to stave off its own decline, study suggests – CBC
• Opinion: No, immigration is not some magic pill for saving the economy – The Globe and Mail

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