To build an AI nation, Canada must build AI literacy

We continue to treat AI as the domain of elite researchers, large firms, and a few potential national champions. But Canada does not need one AI champion. We need thousands of AI adopters and reimaginers.
Canada must become an AI nation, and must urgently launch a mass AI literacy campaign, writes Joël Blit, professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo.

Canada considers itself a global leader in artificial intelligence. In some respects, that is justified: this country helped lay the foundations of modern machine learning, became the first nation to launch a national AI strategy, and continues to produce world-class researc...

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