Driving accountability when AI has its hand on the wheel

In a world of co-pilots and chat bots, this public interest researcher feels the growing impacts of artificial intelligence.

Official access-to-information systems are beginning to use tax-paid AI tools to help exempt even more data, refine sanitized talking points, and take control of the flow of information, writes Ken Rubin. Pexels photograph by Anete Lusina

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

February 11, 2026

OTTAWA—I have been doggedly digging for data and diligently researching a wide variety of topics and issues for six decades, uncovering many stories.

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