{"id":277891,"date":"2026-06-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:00:09","slug":"ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"AI safety advocates say bill a good &#8216;first step&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step-on-regulation-but-more-needed\/\">AI safety advocates say bill a good &#8216;first step&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step-on-regulation-but-more-needed\/\">https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step-on-regulation-but-more-needed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-21 14:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cp24.com\">www.cp24.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A pair of artificial intelligence safety advocates say the federal government\u2019s new chatbot legislation is a good first step.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But Wyatt Tessari L\u2019Alli\u00e9 \u2014 of Artificial Intelligence Governance and Safety Canada \u2014 says the digital safety bill\u2019s effectiveness depends heavily on how the details are worked out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">And B.C. computer science professor Kevin Leyton-Brown says Ottawa will need to go further to address AI\u2019s sycophantic behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bill C-34, introduced June 10 in the House of Commons, would regulate the companies behind AI chatbots by imposing on them a duty to act responsibly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It includes measures to lower the risk of chatbots communicating harmful content and crisis intervention protocols for cases involving self-harm, suicide or violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kristie Carrier, who is suing OpenAI after the death of her daughter by suicide, says the federal government\u2019s bill is long overdue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Anja Karadeglija.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eli Ridder, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step-on-regulation-but-more-needed\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI safety advocates say bill a good &#8216;first step&#8217; https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-safety-advocates-say-bill-a-good-first-step-on-regulation-but-more-needed\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-21 14:39:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/resizer\/v2\/XI3V76S5BTGZSTYKFNVG7QVDN4.jpg?smart=true&auth=9ae9e4f80c368bc887436e0e912cb1c36b3f15a7ccf1f9c8a3e1fb2c13720184&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277893,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277891\/revisions\/277893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}