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.
Public servants urge data sovereignty in recent survey, while AI minister says ‘data isn’t gold in Fort Knox’
Ninety-four per cent of public servants surveyed this summer say citizens’ data must be stored within Canada, and 86 per cent worry about public trust eroding if such data is stored outside of the country.
Canada’s unions and AI: meet the future, don’t duck it
The federal government’s announcement that it will roll out artificial intelligence in some public service departments has caused understandable concern amongst government workers and their unions. Instead of seeing this as a job killer, workers should see it as a defining moment. In fact, the arrival of AI offers opportunities to lead, collaborate, and build […]
Top bureaucrats say AI is ‘art of the possible’ in the public service
Chief Data Officer Stephen Burt says he recently received a draft of the public service’s first AI registry, representing 400 cases being used across government, from helping Indigenous language preservation to screening air cargo.
