Government must balance AI development with risk management
As we stand at the threshold of the AI Age, Canadian policymakers and citizens must ask: What kind of press do we want? And what kind of democracy can we keep?
Security delayed is security denied
Ensuring Canada is cyber-resilient in the face of converging threats is a nation-building mission essential to our economic prosperity, national security, and global credibility.
Who will protect our brains in the AI race?
Canada has always invested in brain science, even during fiscal challenges. While others pursue AI dominance through speed and scale, we could lead by putting human cognition at the centre.
In Carney’s Canada, AI policy has nearly no Black experts
If we fail to address the biases in the data sets used to train AI, anti-Black racism will become more automated and even more covert.
Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy
Very few firms or organizations are actually experiencing any productivity benefits from generative artificial intelligence. The political economy of genAI doesn’t make sense, nor does rushing AI policy right now.
Health care and AI: a uniquely Canadian opportunity
If we put health at the centre of Canada’s AI strategy, we can strengthen our healthcare system while lowering costs, improving patient care, boosting productivity, accelerating life-changing health discoveries, and growing a globally competitive industry that pays dividends for decades.
AI presents potential, and aspects that should give us pause
Complex technologies—whether AI or the next frontier in defence research, climate change, or cancer—require support from social sciences and humanities to explain the new technology according to the social and ethical norms by which we live.
The coming AI crash
Far too much money is being spent on long-odds bets that some new artificial intelligence tech will appear that justifies the current ridiculously high level of investment.
The challenge around AI is simple: anchor policy in public purpose
Ottawa risks chasing tech-fuelled illusions without building the governance architecture for an AI-driven future.
Alarms are blaring: why AI-driven attacks demand a seismic shift toward exposure management
For years, cybersecurity experts warned of a day when digital attacks would move beyond simply stealing data and freezing computer screens to actually disrupting our way of life and upending the foundations of our society. That day has arrived.
