Podcast: In discussion with Stephen Burt, Chief Data Officer for the Government of Canada

Stephen spoke to GRIP about Canada’s embrace of AI and innovation, the results of international collaboration, and much more.

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Stephen and Julie DiMauro, GRIP’s Content Manager (North America), spoke about helping Canada’s government and business sectors foster a responsible use strategy for artificial intelligence. The conversation included:

  • the government of Canada’s perspective on the responsible use of AI and the design of flexible principles in this arena;
  • several directives from his office touching on impact assessment, transparency, quality assurance, reporting, data bias, and more;
  • what collaboration at national and international level has entailed;
  • the role of training and why some people remain deeply skeptical about using AI;
  • how his and other Canada government departments are leveraging the talent and expertise of Canadian people and institutions;
  • how unstructured data such as text, audio, and video was ready for AI to make it more actionable and manageable; and
  • his own ever-evolving career.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.