The federal government is set to introduce its AI strategy within days — a long-awaited policy that has been delayed amid increasing public concern about the social impacts and safety of the technology. “It’s coming out next week,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Parliament Hill Wednesday. Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon initially promised […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced it is supercharging its use of artificial intelligence to police how states and other recipients of federal health dollars are auditing their programs. The move is intended to tamp down risks of fraud and save the government money. The department […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week is designed to track them day […]

Sporting a black T-shirt and slacks, artificial-intelligence startup worker Sigrid Jin walked onstage for a live interview last Monday in front of the few thousand tech workers, founders and investors gathered in Vancouver. The startup software worker — initially famous for being one of the top users of Anthropic’s coding assistant, Claude Code — had […]

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is clarifying his remarks that he uses “11 AI agents” to do a lot of his work, saying it’s in a strictly personal capacity. Sim had praised the efficiency of AI tools at the Web Summit in Vancouver on Tuesday, saying he expects AI to be 64 times better in three […]

Ottawa has spent more than $800 million on artificial intelligence technology since 2023, according to data provided by the federal government. The sum includes two previously announced deals: a $350 million public service contract with Dayforce to replace the troubled Phoenix pay system and a $240 million investment in the AI company Cohere. It also […]

LONDON (AP) — Meta Platforms said Wednesday it’s rolling out an “incognito” mode for WhatsApp users to have private conversations with its AI chatbot, a move intended to ease privacy concerns about sensitive information that users share in chats. The social media company said in a blog post that incognito chat mode provides a way […]

New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province’s auditor general concluded in a special report released Tuesday. Shelley Spence said the so-called “AI scribe” software was not evaluated adequately before implementation. “We found gaps in how AI scribe systems used to generate medical notes […]

RIVERTON, Utah (AP) — When a dozen Republican activists gathered on a back deck in the Salt Lake City suburbs to talk about this year’s elections, the conversation cycled through all the staples of conservative chatter in Utah such as dwindling water supplies, illegal immigrant fraud and chemtrail conspiracy theories. But Doug Fiefia, a state […]

The topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a confusing and delicate topic to navigate, and the Town of Oliver experienced that reality anew in recent Council discussions. A draft AI Usage policy was presented at the April 7 Committee of the Whole (CoW) meeting, to regulate how the Town approaches AI when dealing […]

Hope Lompe Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Gabriola Sounder Fire District content from Derek Kilbourn, Editor, Gabriola Sounder AI is rapidly changing how governments work, with several risks to be considered like personal and private information entered into data servers in countries outside of Canada.  After the Sounder reported in the April 1 edition that the Islands Trust […]

The NDP is expected to introduce a motion on Wednesday calling on the government to ban a practice known as surveillance pricing that New Democrats say is unfair to consumers.  The text of the motion describes the practice as companies using a customer’s personal data, like search history or how long they stay on a […]