CIFAR and the AI Governance Story in Canada

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There's this institution in Canada to research Institute called the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2017, because they're such a influential player in science and technology research here in Canada, when the government of Canada saw that AI was becoming an issue with these huge social stakes, they realized that we were going to need a national strategy. So they commissioned CIFAR to run what's called the Penn Canadian AI strategy. This is a collection of mostly, it's a collection of different programs. These are AI researchers across Canada, focus on different areas in AI research. There's three AI institutes that We had that CIFAR kind of funds and manages throughout Canada as part of this strategy.

In episode 57 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Blair Attard-Frost.

Note: this interview was recorded 8 months ago, and some aspects of Canada’s AI strategy have changed since then. It is still a good overview of AI governance and other topics, however.

Blair is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information who researches the governance and management of artificial intelligence. More specifically, they are interested in the social construction of intelligence, unintelligence, and artificial intelligence, the relationship between organizational values and AI use, and the political economy, governance, and ethics of AI value chains. They integrate perspectives from service sciences, cognitive sciences, public policy, information management, and queer studies for their research.

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Outline:

* Intro

* Getting into AI research

* What is AI governance

* Canada’s AI strategy

* Other interests

Links:

* Once a promising leader, Canada’s artificial-intelligence strategy is now a fragmented laggard

* The Ethics of AI Business Practices: A Review of 47 Guidelines

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