{"id":74776,"date":"2026-06-04T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/74776\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:03:09","slug":"canada-pm-unveils-ai-strategy-warns-of-foreign-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/74776\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada PM unveils AI strategy, warns of foreign dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Prime Minister Mark Carney launched his AI strategy on Thursday, warning Canada\u2019s slow adoption of the frontier technology had created risks and that domestic capacity needed a boost to avoid it being \u201cweaponised against us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reducing Canada\u2019s reliance on the US is a central part of Carney\u2019s agenda, and his AI strategy nodded to concern about the influence of US tech giants.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are highly dependent on foreign suppliers for the infrastructure that powers AI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThat creates real risks that foreign entities could access Canadian data, deploy AI products that shape Canadian lives without reflecting our values,\u201d he added, warning \u201cAI could be weaponised against us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Carney\u2019s office said Canada was one of the slowest G7 countries to adopt AI at scale, with the new plan aiming to improve AI literacy and ramp up adoption among Canadian businesses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a new federal AI agenda at Toronto General Hospital on Thursday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4ed4b9d9-e3ae-47a9-9998-b08b6ee66f54_0693e825.jpg\" title=\"Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a new federal AI agenda at Toronto General Hospital on Thursday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a new federal AI agenda at Toronto General Hospital on Thursday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The prime minister also referenced Canadian company Cohere\u2019s acquisition of German AI firm Aleph Alpha, which created a combined entity valued at around US$20 billion with dual headquarters in Toronto and Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney launched his AI strategy on Thursday, warning Canada\u2019s slow adoption of the frontier technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[1660,30112,4882,30110,17,351,735,4883,29037,30111,1888,111,141,48,734],"class_list":["post-74776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-ai","tag-aidan-gomez","tag-aleph-alpha","tag-berlin","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-carney","tag-cohere","tag-g7","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-mark-carney","tag-prime-minister","tag-toronto","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}