PODCAST: AI vs. Strategy—Joe Castaldo
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The episode discusses Canada's new AI strategy with Joe Castaldo, focusing on trust, literacy, and adoption in the context of artificial intelligence.
Recently, the federal government released its new national AI strategy, AI for All. I downloaded it, printed all the pages, and sat down with a highlighter. What interested me wasn’t just the policy itself. It was the story Canada is trying to tell about AI. The strategy is built around words like trust, literacy, adoption, and sovereignty. It assumes that AI will become part of our lives, our workplaces, our schools, and our economy. But as I read, I kept coming back to a few simple questions: * Trust for whom? * Literacy for what? * And adoption on whose terms? To help unpack it, I invited Joe Castaldo onto the podcast. Joe is a business journalist at the Globe and Mail who has spent the last several years covering artificial intelligence, including Canada’s emerging AI policy. What I appreciate about Joe’s reporting is that he doesn’t approach AI as either magic or doom. He’s interested in what is actually happening: where the technology is useful, where it’s falling short, and what questions still remain unanswered. In this conversation, we discuss: * Canada’s new AI strategy and its focus on adoption * Whether AI literacy automatically leads to trust * The government’s $50…
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