{"id":283493,"date":"2026-06-29T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/un-ambassador-lametti-canada-pushing-for-safety-equity-in-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:10:06","slug":"un-ambassador-lametti-canada-pushing-for-safety-equity-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/un-ambassador-lametti-canada-pushing-for-safety-equity-in-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"UN ambassador Lametti: Canada pushing for safety, equity in artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN ambassador Lametti: Canada pushing for safety, equity in artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/29\/un-ambassador-lametti-canada-pushing-for-safety-equity-in-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-29 04:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: halifax.citynews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Canada is pushing for safe, equitable adoption of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, where Ottawa\u2019s ambassador says AI is a significant priority for his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI governance is something that the UN has to do \u2014 has a responsibility to do,\u201d David Lametti told The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN remains critically important, (it) remains perhaps the only institution in the world that can convene that kind of discussion on a more or less equal footing between Meta, Amazon Web, Microsoft, Apple and Google \u2014 and all of these other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lametti officially started his role last November, and says AI has taken up \u201cbetween 10 and 15 per cent\u201d of his time.<\/p>\n

Lametti said there is \u201cdefinitely alignment\u201d on the need for safety in AI, as well as concerns from emerging countries, particularly in Asia, that they might be left behind. <\/p>\n

AI was a major theme at the G7 summit in France earlier this month, with leading economies trying to find consensus on how to regulate platforms without hurting economic growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these countries in the world, 190-odd countries, don\u2019t just want to be technology-takers,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want to have a voice in the adoption. The UN remains the only place where they can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lametti noted he had worked on AI governance as federal justice minister and as a McGill University law professor more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve got a particular experience there that will be useful, to Canada and to the world. So I\u2019m certainly making that a personal priority. It aligns with the government\u2019s priorities about AI safety and AI development \u2014 the two together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will be fast moving, and that will be important,\u201d said Lametti, who will be in Geneva next month for the AI for Good Global Summit.<\/p>\n

In May, Lametti hosted the chair of the International AI Safety Report at Canada\u2019s UN mission, for an event on how middle powers can encourage the safe use of AI. That…<\/p>\n

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