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Action Summit in Paris highlights Canada’s need to legislate equity in AI

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AI Action Summit

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is set to transform healthcare, leading to improved outcomes and saved lives. New innovations have the potential to decrease existing health inequities. But without intentional consideration, these technologies can also exacerbate inequities by relying on biased datasets that disproportionately represent populations with greater access to and benefit from the health […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.