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Ottawa launches new national AI council to advise on safety, deployment
The council will advise on safer AI use, stronger Canadian companies, and sovereign infrastructure as Ottawa targets $200 billion in growth and 250,000 jobs.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney launched the National Council, a 13-member group tasked with providing independent, practical expert advice on Canada's AI transformation.
- The Council will guide the national AI strategy released this past June, which focuses on accelerating AI adoption, fostering national champions, and building sovereign AI infrastructure.
- Notable tech leaders join the group, including "AI godfather" Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, Ajay Agrawal, Jordan Jacobs, Mila CEO Valérie Pisano, and Canadian Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn.
- Other members include CPP Investments CEO John Graham, Senator Thomas Pitfield, and Patrick Pichette, who recently became CEO of the Government's new Digital Transformation Agency.
- In their recommendations, Agrawal suggested proposing moonshot AI projects to drive infrastructure creation, while Pichette advised Canada to become the world's lowest-cost safe data centre infrastructure provider.
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