Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched Canada's AI strategy, expressing concern over slow adoption and the risk of foreign technological dominance. The strategy aims to boost domestic AI capacity and reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants.

Prime Minister Mark Carney launched his AI strategy on Thursday, warning Canada’s slow adoption of the frontier technology had created risks and that domestic capacity needed a boost to avoid it being “weaponised against us”. Reducing Canada’s reliance on the US is a central part of Carney’s agenda, and his AI strategy nodded to concern about the influence of US tech giants. “We are highly dependent on foreign suppliers for the infrastructure that powers AI,” he said. “That creates real risks...