Top bureaucrats say AI is ‘art of the possible’ in the public service

Chief Data Officer Stephen Burt says he recently received a draft of the public service's first AI registry, representing 400 cases being used across government, from helping Indigenous language preservation to screening air cargo.

Canada’s top data bureaucrat says artificial intelligence in the public service will soon be published in a searchable database, as AI Minister Evan Solomon teased the government is planning to introduce privacy and data legislation again, after two failed attempts.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

September 25, 2025

Canada’s top data bureaucrat offered up a “tasting menu” of where artificial intelligence is currently being used in the federal public service, as parliamentarians mull another attempt at legislating data and privacy.

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