News Summary

• AI is poised to create the most significant competitive divide of the past two centuries.
• The coming quantum leap in productivity will be so significant that the world will quickly divide between those who adopt AI and those who don’t.
• Fewer than 1 in 10 Canadian companies classify their AI adoption as advanced.
• Canada pioneered foundational AI research and today 10 per cent of the world’s top-tier AI researchers are here in Canada, the second-highest concentration of any country.
• For Canada to reap the benefits of a technology it helped create, we must focus on applied AI, the most effective way of ushering in the industrialization of AI.