AI safety advocates say bill a good ‘first step’ on regulation, but more needed

A pair of synthetic intelligence security advocates say the federal authorities’s new chatbot laws is an efficient first step.

However Wyatt Tessari L’Allié — of Synthetic Intelligence Governance and Security Canada — says the digital security invoice’s effectiveness relies upon closely on how the main points are labored out.

And B.C. laptop science professor Kevin Leyton-Brown says Ottawa might want to go additional to handle AI’s sycophantic behaviour.

Invoice C-34, launched June 10 within the Home of Commons, would regulate the businesses behind AI chatbots by imposing on them an obligation to behave responsibly.

It consists of measures to decrease the chance of chatbots speaking dangerous content material and disaster intervention protocols for circumstances involving self-harm, suicide or violence.

Kristie Service, who’s suing OpenAI after the demise of her daughter by suicide, says the federal authorities’s invoice is lengthy overdue.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed June 21, 2026.

— With recordsdata from Anja Karadeglija.

Eli Ridder, The Canadian Press