Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031

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The draft of Canada’s national AI strategy emphasizes scaling up business adoption and providing free AI literacy training for Canadians.
The draft includes six pillars, focusing on protection and empowerment of Canadians, AI adoption, AI sovereignty, scaling up AI champions, and building global alliances.
The strategy aims to protect Canadians from risks of AI and online harms, and plans to modernize online safety laws to safeguard children and customers.
Canada intends to create up to 90,000 AI-related job opportunities and support up to 250,000 new AI-relevant jobs by 2031.
The draft strategy shows Canada’s intent to boost its business adoption of AI from 12% to more than 50% by 2030, and to leverage government procurement to expand local AI capacities.
The country is also pushing for AI sovereignty, focusing on building domestic AI infrastructure and increasing national AI data control.
The federal government will invest in developing AI data centres, enhancing the AI Compute Access Fund, and creating a national data platform for AI work.
To attract and retain talent in Canada’s AI field, the government plans to increase the number of AI researchers and expand its Global Talent Stream permit program.

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