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Canada launches National AI Council

Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence

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Shannon Mattern Gillian Hadfield

“Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY”

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Gillian Hadfield: Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
Rafael M Batista: Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
Rafael M Batista: Congrats, Gillian! Lucky for @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Shannon Mattern Matthew L. Jones
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Shannon Mattern: I’ve been reading lots of academics’ AI critiques that focus on the insufficiency of mass digitization and the provision of access, and on the dangers of stripping away context — and I’m hoping fol…
Shannon Mattern: There’s a whole pre-genAI discourse that prefigures the critiques since 2022, and ignoring it (ironically) reifies Silicon Valley’s ahistorical claims of progress
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