Major AI conference coming to Halifax next spring

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir discusses an AI conference coming to Halifax next May.

A major conference on artificial intelligence is coming to Halifax next spring.

AICON, which just wrapped up an event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be coming to Halifax in May, according to Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, former lord mayor of Belfast.

The conference looks at the ongoing effects of AI on society and it’s potential impacts in the future.

“It’s really important that AI works for us,” Muilleoir told CTV News Atlantic’s Bruce Frisko on Monday. “We need to make sure we deploy it in a way that’s a benefit to us. There are many things AI can do if we deploy it in a responsible, ethical way.”

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