Anson Duran

Update: I'm launching something I've wanted to for awhile canadaaipolicy.com. Here's a gap I keep running into. Canadian AI policy is moving fast — a new AI strategy coming up, provincial moves, federal procurement shifts, funding announcements, new organizations, international commitments — but the conversation is scattered across dozens of sites, PDFs, consultations, and press releases. Interested executives, public servants, board directors, journalists, and students I talk to every week often describe the same problem: how do I get started? Where are the best resources? So I built a simple one page website, a curated list. canadaaipolicy.com is a hub of AI policy resources with a Canada lens. It brings together many of the key primers I wish I had when I first started working on this. It pulls from my course syllabus at University of Toronto as well as a number of other resources. It is the site I have wanted to send people before meetings or talks. A few things it is, and a few things it isn't. - It is a starting point — definitely not comprehensive! It is a front door.  - It is opinionated in what it links to, because signal matters more than volume. I also do link to a couple of my own reports (although the vast majority is other sources). - It is not a substitute for the deep work being done at CIFAR, the Vector Institute, Mila, Amii, the AI Competitiveness Project at the Munk School, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and many others. I definitely encourage you to read those reports and that policy work if you want to go deeper! My hope is that this becomes a useful default starting point for anyone trying to get serious about AI policy particularly in Canada for students, policymakers, boards, executives, reporters, visiting delegations. I've tried to link to things that I agree with and also some that I have more differences with or skepticism around to provide balanced perspectives. I believe the stronger our shared baseline and facts, the better our arguments get. I will be adding to it regularly: new reports, consultations to watch, institutions to know, and a reading list that reflects the best of what Canadians (and friends of Canada) are publishing. Feel free to visit canadaaipolicy.com and bookmark it. And please — tell me what is missing. If you see major gaps, corrections, resources I haven't surfaced yet: I want them, feel free to message me. Bottom line -- Canada punches above its weight in AI research. And we have some great AI companies on the rise. But we should punch above our weight in AI policy too. P.S. I built this in one day using AI as part of the tinyailab.ai challenge! Check it out for your weekly challenge.