ABSTRACT
Benjamin Prud’homme is the Vice-President, Policy, Society and Global Affairs at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, one of the largest academic communities dedicated to AI. At the time this text was written, he was the Executive Director of the AI for Humanity department at Mila. Previously, he was a litigator in human rights, constitutional, and family law until his 2018 appointment as policy advisor to the Minister of Justice of Canada. In 2019, he became the advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada on matters of human rights and multilateral relations, a position he occupied until joining Mila. His work and publications focus on the role of human rights in the international governance of AI, the inclusion of marginalized individuals and communities in the life cycle of AI systems, and the epistemology of interdisciplinarity. An expert for the United Nations Broadband Commission’s Working Group on AI Capacity Building, he sits on the Advisory Board of Sustainability in the Digital Age (a think tank) and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
