The Prime Minister has unveiled the federal government’s AI strategy to help protect Canadians, grow jobs and enable people to use the technology to their own benefit.

Mark Carney says government’s new strategy is designed to develop trust that AI will be governed in ways that reflect Canadian values “to trust that they will share in its benefits, and for AI to benefit Canadians, it needs to create new opportunities for us, and needs to be anchored in infrastructure that Canadians can control.”

The PM says Ottawa is introducing new legislation, standards and regulation “to protect your data, your privacy, (and) your children.”

Government is also launching a national AI literacy initiative with “free, and trustworthy AI learning kits, including courses and modules” to allow Canadians to better understand the technology, and “put it to work in their own lives.”