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Canada AI Watch
Canada
Allocated Budget
- CAD 125 million allocated to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) by the federal government in 2017 (part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy)
Reports
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Government of Canada
Working Groups
- Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cluster Steering Committee
- AI4Health Task Force
Researchers
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- MILA - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Regulations
- Directive on Automated Decision-Making
Projects
- AI4Good National Training Program
- AI & Society program
- CIFAR launches 14 AI research projects to help in fight against COVID-19
Investments
- CAD 84 million to McGill University for their Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) initiative (2016)
- CAD 93.5 million to Université de Montréal for Optimization of Deep Learning and Knowledge sharing (2016)
- CAD 100 million allocated by the Government of Quebec for the creation of a provincial wide cluster and institute for Artificial Intelligence (2017)
- CAD 5 million by the government of Quebec toward the establishment of an international organization on artificial intelligence (2018)
- CAD 10 million toward by the government of Quebec toward NEXT.AI and CDL, initiatives of HEC Montreal (2018)
Initiatives
- Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- Artificial Intelligence for Design Challenge program by the National Research Council Canada
- Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
- Algorithmic Impact Assessment
- AI Source List (73 pre-approved suppliers “to provide Canada with responsible and effective AI services, solutions and products”)
- CIFAR AI Chairs program
- CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants
- Montréal Declaration for Responsible Development of AI
- Next AI accelerator initiative
