• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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    • Protect Canadians and children against the risks from AI and online harms.
    • Provide Canadians access to free AI literacy training, including reaching one million entry-level post-secondary students.
    • Support creating up to 250,000 new jobs through AI adoption by 2031.
    • Boost Canada’s business adoption of AI from 12 per cent today to 60 per cent by 2034.
    • Build a world-leading supercomputer as part of significantly enhanced sovereign infrastructure by 2031.
    • Build a multilateral alliance so Canada moves from reliance to resilience by having sovereign autonomy in key AI capabilities.

    Definitely not excited for AI usage to jump from 12% to 60%.

    First they’re gonna have to post secondary students basic literacy from what my friends who teach are telling me.

    I’m rather suspicious about a super computer and an international AI alliance. Like we’ve already seen how the UK has gone all out on surveillance tech. I know something like this is probably necessary given how vital cybersecurity is going to be in the coming decades.

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      The adoption part is really strange. The rest is at least policy and trying to provide a service. But what does the government care what tools a private business chooses to use (outside of regulatory requirements)?

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        That part is to reassure the CEOs with companies valued just south of a trillion dollars (in some cases, just north!) and not much backing that valuation. This is all built on smoke and fairy dust anyway, so pointing to a nation planning 60% adoption is a great way to leverage even higher investment. The future!