AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 7h ago6/10
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Bureaucratic Silences: What the Canadian AI Register Reveals, Omits, and Obscures
Canada's new Federal AI Register, designed to enhance transparency, reveals that 86% of deployed AI systems serve internal efficiency purposes while systematically obscuring crucial details about human oversight, training data, and decision-making uncertainty. Researchers analyzing the 409-system dataset found the register prioritizes technical descriptions over sociotechnical context, potentially transforming accountability into performative compliance rather than genuine contestability.