For all the good of AI, there's also evils Canada must crack down on

We are in a high season of alarmism over artificial intelligence. "Mitigating the risk of (human) extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," warns an open letter last week from the Center for AI Safety. That's the second such open letter this year about the "existential" dangers posed by AI. Each was signed by a roster of top AI executives and computer engineers. That recalls Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, rightly despairing at the cesspool of hate and disinformation that the web has become. But…