{"id":631845,"date":"2026-04-27T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631845\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:20:09","slug":"opposition-house-leader-pushing-for-ai-policy-for-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631845\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition House Leader Pushing for AI Policy for Elected Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img-3501.jpeg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Opposition House Leader Pushing for AI Policy for Elected Officials\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Dempster (VOCM News file photo)<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition House Leader says she\u2019s eager to see government introduce a policy on the use of artificial intelligence by government members.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Dempster made the comment following a post by Tourism Minister Andrea Barbour, who regretted making use of ChatGPT in a promotional post on Tourism Week.<\/p>\n<p>The algorithm made noticeable changes to the exterior of The Rooms, leading to questions and concerns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/andrea-barbour-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/andrea-barbour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-297372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism Minister Andrea Barbour rising in the House on a personal Point of Privilege<\/p>\n<p>Minister Barbour <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/04\/23\/i-will-not-be-shamed-out-of-this-chair-vows-tourism-minister\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rose on an emotional Point of Privilege <\/a>in the house, outlining the mockery and cruelty she\u2019s suffered on social media since the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Dempster says, with the use of AI, some politicians and parties are going further, using the technology to alter images to score political brownie points.<\/p>\n<p>She calls it a new low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd some of it is happening from the highest seats, when we\u2019re wrongfully accused, when it\u2019s dishonesty, when it\u2019s videos with our faces distorted and things like that. I do hope AI policy is coming, and I hope that there will be some firm parameters put around AI, because what people are seeing now and naturally believing from their leaders, is not really true. Much of it is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Lisa Dempster (VOCM News file photo) The Opposition House Leader says she\u2019s eager to see government introduce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-631845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}