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Sophie Nunnelley

Sophie Nunnelley is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of law, a member of the uOttawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, and a former AMS fellow in compassion and artificial intelligence.


Calls to fold chatbots into online harms legislation requires different framework: treating AI-mediated emotional support as a relationship

With a new national AI strategy forthcoming, the question is whether this government will use that opportunity to ask what role we want AI to play in mental health care—or whether it will settle for summoning tech executives to Ottawa and expressing disappointment.

opinion | BY SOPHIE NUNNELLEY | March 11, 2026