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The Canadian federal government released the national strategy on AI. A few things stuck out:
“The strategy is built on three core principles: trust, opportunity, and sovereignty, aiming to ensure AI benefits all Canadians while protecting them from risks.”
Big point: AI has advanced, but there is little confidence that current GenAI, its current baby, is the foundation for the next level of AI. It clearly isn’t.
The reality is Canada still relies heavily on US-grown frontier models. We also rely on US cloud infrastructure, which houses most of Canadian data and PII. This concentration of power continues to elude us. The answer: Build the foundations of sovereign Canadian AI in compute, cloud, data and talent…
I am curious about their goal of building a world-leading public AI supercomputer with sovereign compute and cloud infrastructure, and chips built in Canada?
Currently, we have 5 hyperscaled data centres, with 96 proposed. These are risky commitments, especially under the current influence of US big tech and their justification for the impending demand.
This commitment to data centres fails to mention the strategy to negotiate energy use among Canadians, businesses and the big $$ that prioritizes demand for compute power.
The $200 billion earmarked for economic growth targeting 250K new AI-related jobs means we also need to increase adoption rates in SMB and enterprise. Right now it is hovering at 12%.
But there are reasons for the low adoption rate, and despite the optimism I reported last year, 36% of Canadians believed AI was harmful. hessiejones.substack.co…
I’m glad we are ‘modernizing legal frameworks to prioritize trust and safety to reduce risks. This is long overdue.
I’m skeptical about “the government believing that “trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student” actually exi “ It doesn’t.
Literacy/training is a bucket term. This is not only reskilling. I’d like to think that includes a true understanding of how these systems came to be and how they operate, and that it gives Canadians genuine individual choice in deciding whether to use them.
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