Canada has the talent, technology, expertise and democratic values to be a global AI superpower – offering the world an alternative to U.S. and Chinese dominance, according to the latest episode of the Disruptors podcast.
The country has already played a foundational role in the emergence of AI, through the work of Canadian “AI godfathers” Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and as the founding home of organizations such as Cohere.
And, as global demand surges for a diversified technology supply chain, Canada – with its frontier-model LLM and its AI strategy committed to “trust, opportunity and sovereign control” – can become the “global champion” of AI development and deployment that is safe, fair and benefits all.
Canada’s approach advocates greater safeguards to ensure appropriate vulnerability tests can place alongside increasingly fast development cycles; uniform access to the most powerful tools – so everyone can defend their organizations at the same time – and the reimagining jobs rather than a destruction.
"At the moment, we see differentiated access. U.S. firms are getting selective access to the most powerful tools, while others aren’t. The world needs to think about sovereign frontier capabilities and a safe AI ecosystem."
Dave McKay, President & CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
