Prime Minister Trudeau and Mounir Mahjoubi, France’s secretary of state for digital affairs, announced plans for an International Panel on Artificial Intelligence at the G7 conference on AI in Montreal. According to a mandate issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, the panel will lean on expertise from the scientific community, industry, civil society and governments to “guide AI policy development and the responsible adoption of AI, grounded in human rights.” (MIT Technology Review)

Talking point: There’s growing support for the idea that rapid advances in AI have come at the expense of ethical considerations—something experts in the space are now starting to act upon. For example, Integrate.AI (whose VP of product and strategy, Kathryn Hume, co-authored an op-ed on the topic in today’s Globe and Mail) released an industry rulebook of sorts for AI developers this summer. Meanwhile, Canada and France have been discussing a “human-centric” approach to AI at least since June. They’re now inviting other countries to join in the efforts through this panel, in which Mahjoubi said some G7 and EU members have shown interest.