Hello Canadians
If you are someone who thinks AI needs to be regulated, I encourage you to email your Member of Parliament about it. I just sent mine an email today. The more emails they get, and the more MPs that get emails, the more likely it is that our concerns will be addressed. It is our job as citizens to demand the change we want to see. If you don't know what to say, here is what my email said:
Hello [MP]
I am a resident in [Riding] who is writing to you today because I feel passionately that the government needs to address the issue of AI, and soon. What is the government doing to protect people's jobs from AI? Prime Minister Carney's platform says he wants to "incentivize AI adoption" and "calls for AI to slash repetitive tasks and reduce costs in the public service. " But what about the people whose jobs it will take? People need to be able to work, and giving jobs to computers that people could, and have been, doing doesn't help anyone but company's bottom lines. It certainly doesn't help the person who lost their job. Also what about the environmental impact of AI? Interesting how no one cares about the environment anymore when it comes to increasing profits for multi millionaires and billionaires. Additionally, what is being done to combat how AI can be used to create fake news and spread misinformation? Me, and others like me, don't want the government to incentivize AI use and to build water and energy wasting data centers, we want the government to regulate AI in order to protect people's jobs, to protect the arts, to deal with the copyright violations AI is rife with, to protect the environment, and to limit the spread of misinformation.
Thank you for your time,
[Your Name]
feel free to change it up if you want obviously but if you're struggling to come up with what to say here's how you can start.
If you don't know who your MP is you can find out using this website: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en
(I encourage American's to do the same, but idk how their politics work and if you can just like email your representative in America like you can in Canada)
