GOVT OF CANADA LOOKS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The Federal government is hoping to use artificial intelligence to inform how it mounts legal challenges to immigration and refugee claims as part of a new pilot program, set to move ahead in June 2018

Ottawa plans on using the emerging technology to reduce government lawyers’ need to perform their own legal research, a costly and time-consuming process. 

And the government admits that it hopes to use artificial intelligence and machine learning, eventually, to help determine refugee applications themselves.

The government hopes that, if the pilot is a success, front-line immigration officials in Canada and abroad could use this technology “to aid in their assessment of the merits of an application before decisions are finalized.”

A spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Ahmed Hussen said the new tool being sought by his department would provide “new insights” and promote efficiency.