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• The Bill would create stronger online protection for children and better safeguard everyone in Canada from online hate and other types of harmful content.
• Government of Canada introduces legislation to combat harmful content online, including the sexual exploitation of children.
• The Bill would create stronger online protections for children and better safeguard everyone in Canada from online hate and other types of harmful content.
• They could also include design features to limit children's exposure to harmful content, including explicit adult content, cyberbullying content and content that incites self-harm.

• SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyberhaven today launched Linea AI, a revolutionary AI platform designed to combat the most critical insider risks threatening vital corporate data.
• Unlike traditional data security measures, Linea AI builds a nuanced understanding of how people and teams operate.
• This innovative approach allows Linea AI to detect data risks that traditional security tools would miss due to false positives.
• "With Linea AI, we're not just introducing another chatbot; we're introducing a fully-featured autonomous AI agent for data security.

• Clearspeed , the leading provider of AI-powered risk assessment technology for enterprise organizations, announced the appointment of Parker Wise to its advisory board.
• Parker brings extensive experience in developing and leading national security programs across the globe through his executive roles with the United States Federal Government, where he served for more than 28 years.
• As Clearspeed rapidly scales in the insurance and financial services verticals, Parker's expertise will be instrumental in support of Clearspeed’s growing client base in the government, defense, intelligence, and security sectors.
• “Clearspeed was developed to help organizations close the trust gap,” said Alex Martin, CEO of Clearspeed.

• You were seen in the clinic some months ago, but still don’t have a date for the procedure.
• It is extremely frustrating, but it seems that you will just have to wait.
• However, the hospital surgical team has just got in contact via a chatbot.
• This suggests that some people would be more inclined to lie to a waiting-list chatbot.

One potential reason people are more honest with humans is because of their sensitivity to how they are perceived by others. The chatbot is not going to look down on you, judge you or speak harshly of you. But we might ask a deeper question about why lying is wrong, and whether a virtual conversational partner changes that.

The ethics of lying

• There are different ways that we can think about the ethics of lying.
• Lying can be bad because it causes harm to other people.
• Lying is also bad for us because it can lead to others being untruthful to us in turn.
• But again, that is unlikely to be a consequence of lying to a chatbot.

Fairness

• Of course, lying can be wrong for reasons of fairness.
• This is potentially the most significant reason that it is wrong to lie to a chatbot.
• If you were moved up the waiting list because of a lie, someone else would thereby be unfairly displaced.

Virtue

• This is often captured in the ethical importance of virtue.
• A virtue of honesty is also self-reinforcing: if we cultivate the virtue, it helps to reduce the temptation to lie.
• But if it does, one worry is whether it might affect our tendency to be honest in the rest of our life.

Dominic Wilkinson receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.