The Missing Half of Canada’s AI Strategy
Better models and Canadian data centres will not fix public-service AI if governments cannot agree on which data to trust.
Patrick Spencer
PhD Candidate at Carleton University and Doctoral Fellow at CIGI’s Digital Policy Hub
Patrick Spencer is a Doctoral Fellow at CIGI’s Digital Policy Hub and a PhD candidate at Carleton University. He has more than twenty years of experience advising public, private, and not-for-profit organizations on digital transformation, digital government, and AI adoption, including senior roles with Deloitte, Cisco, EY, IBM, and Accenture.
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