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New TELUS cross-border study reveals Canadians and Americans want companies to earn their trust in AI
'Include our feedback as you build AI' is the key message from American and Canadian respondents polled in TELUS' latest cross-border study, AI Trust Atlas: Public perspectives on bridging the AI trust gap. With 85% of Canadians and 89% of Americans reporting that they are using AI, familiarity with the technology is growing – and so are calls for inclusion and engagement in how AI is designed and deployed.
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