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Citizen poll results: Does Canada need a law to regulate artificial intelligence?

The poll ran from Feb. 7 to 20. Of the 772 votes, we can determine that 452 are from within the community.
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Prince George Citizen polled 772 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Does Canada need a law to regulate artificial intelligence?

The poll ran from Feb. 7 to 20. Of the 772 votes, we can determine that 452 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, this is a huge threat to Canada and Canadians 47.57% local, 46.76% total    
Mostly yes, but the law shouldn't restrict helpful innovations 38.27% local, 36.40% total    
Not sure 8.41% local, 9.72% total    
Mostly no, the concerns have been overstated 3.10% local, 4.02% total    
No, the good from AI far outweighs the bad 2.65% local, 3.11% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.51%, 19 times out of 20.

Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.