Canada wants to integrate artificial intelligence into public services

The Canadian government has begun developing the first strategy to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the federal public service.

Although it is too early to know how this AI will be implemented in public services, its launch is planned for the spring of 2025. Citizen of Ottawa.

Treasury Board Chair Anita Anand announced on Monday morning that the government was consulting on the strategy with a “round table” on artificial intelligence made up of government officials, academics and representatives of AI institutes. a citizen.

Canada's Chief Data Officer, Stephen Burt, says he wants to draw inspiration from this technology developed in the private sector to apply it in the public sector. According to him, some companies specifically use generative AI to help their employees navigate internal data.

This type of process increases the efficiency of services, “without reducing the number of jobs”, the president of SCT stated.

The question of security and privacy is one of the issues surrounding the roundtable, especially when staff use AI like ChatGPT. In this regard, last fall the government established a code of conduct for its employees to respect AI.

As for privacy, the minister said in cabinet documents, generative AI is “not commonly used” in certain areas, the English-language media outlet reported.

Cara Beckels, TBS's chief privacy and data officer, said the government had spent “a lot of time” over the past five years putting safeguards in place around the use of AI and automated decision-making, but the strategy was “experimental” with technology to see how it could make operations more efficient.