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    Challenging Privatization in Governance by AI: A Caution for the Future of AI Governance
    (Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2025-09-15) Brandusescu, Ana
    Privatization is increasingly driving the uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) across various sectors. The drive for AI adoption, whether in the name of innovation or the economy, has dominated mainstream news. However, there is less public awareness of generative AI's devasting impacts on labour and the environment. Whether in self-regulation or government regulation, Big Tech influences the direction of governance of AI, which increasingly is evolving to governance by AI and the automation of jobs. "The future of work is already here," states a 2025 report from Human Rights Watch. "Workers around the world are increasingly hired, compensated, disciplined, and fired by algorithms."
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    The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Can Emerging Technologies Address Rural Food Insecurity for Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa?
    (Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2025-10-22) Dragusha, Valdrin; Brown, Andrea M.
    Technological advances have the potential to increase agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and thereby respond to growing food insecurity. This paper, in light of what is being called "the fourth industrial revolution," reviews the potential of emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite crop mapping, for increasing agricultural production and addressing food insecurity in Africa. It concludes that unequal global development, and unequal access to, distribution and control of emerging technologies by China and the United States, combined with the prevalence of smallholder farming, makes positive impacts unlikely in the near future.
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    Accelerating Canada's Economic Transformation towards Industry 5.0: The Synergistic Potential of the Electric Vehicle (EV) Sector
    (Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2025-11-12) Nathwani, Jatin; Ng, Artie
    The main objective of this paper is to identify options of industrial development that are transformative and stand as unique contributors with high-potential for fostering sustainable economic growth, reduced carbon emissions to mitigate the threat of climate risk, and stable levels of employment opportunities through public-private partnership by fostering market-based solutions leveraging on private capital.
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    Canada's Deteriorating AI Position: A Comparative IP Perspective
    (Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2025-12-15) Hinton, James W.; Blais-Savoie, Fabrice
    Utilizing patent data, this paper will attempt to show a portrait of the world's AI patent landscape and explain what happened to Canada's apparent lead in the field. It will build upon methodology from previous reports to collect patent data, then identify current trends in cross-border AI patenting ownership flows, to finally evaluate the adequacy of current Canadian policy and chart a path forward, a path informed by a digital economy where knowledge rents reign supreme and wages stagnate.
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    The Economics of the Data-driven Economy and the Demand for Antitrust
    (Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2026-01-15) Ciuriak, Dan
    Antitrust is again in vogue; its long winter has ended. The revival of demand for antitrust is coincident with the advent of a new Gilded Age - this time in the context of an economy built on intangible assets - IP and (later, increasingly) data.