Securing Canada's Digital Sovereignty: AI and the Growing Economy of Fraud

Global Centre for Pluralism, Ottawa

Workshop on AI-enabled financial fraud. Generative AI has opened a new frontier for financial crime — deepfakes, cloned voices, AI-generated content used to impersonate public figures and fabricate investment opportunities. MEO monitoring of the federal election uncovered AI-generated fake CBC stories promoting crypto scams. With the Finance Minister's new anti-fraud strategy and Financial Crime Agency creation, Canada is at an inflection point.