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Blair Attard-Frost: Canada’s AI strategy and the ethics of AI business practices

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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CIFAR and the AI Governance Story in Canada

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.

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