Carney Looks to AI for Savings as Canada’s Budget Pressures Mount

Protected: Restoring Canada Special SeriesPart II: Carney’s Energy Policy and the Fragile Canadian Economy

“Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss,” The Who’s Pete Townshend wrote back in 1971. Words that today might well apply to Mark Carney. Canada’s new Liberal Prime Minister says he wants to make Canada a “conventional and clean energy superpower”, and suddenly seems to support new oil and natural gas pipelines. But Gwyn Morgan, who devoted years as a CEO to defending Canada’s oil and natural gas industry, doesn’t buy it. Carney, he notes, spent …

Carney Looks to AI for Savings as Canada’s Budget Pressures Mount

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will begin to use artificial intelligence “at scale” to make the government more productive, as his administration looks for ways to squeeze out cost savings in a time of economic pressure.

As Mark Carney goes all-in on AI, music producers in Canada want assurances their images and body of work will not be used to train the technology

Celine Dion gestures as she performs at the Bell Centre in Montreal in 2016. A lobby group representing music labels in Canada wants the government to introduce laws to protect musicians' intellectual property from being used by AI companies without permission. (The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes) Industry lobby group Music Canada communicated with federal officials on May 12, proposing legislation to ensure “individuals are able to protect the us…