Artificial Intelligence BC - Strategic Plan

Artificial Intelligence BC Strategic Plan – Get Ready (Plan & Recruit), SET (Social, Economic & Technological focus), Go (Put the plan into Action)

We will:

• Strengthen the social and technological capacities and substrates necessary to support a vibrant leadership role for Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

• Promote and safeguard the economic strength of B.C., Canada and its democratic allies

• Characterize and understand solutions for the global societal impacts of artificial intelligence

• Network with domestic and international centres of AI excellence to advance the AIBC vision

Strengthen the social and technological capacities and substrates necessary to support a vibrant leadership role for Canadian artificial intelligence and machine learning

• Create funded Research Fellowships to assist BC Universities recruit and retain research faculty
• Facilitate state of the art computing capabilities – including next generation quantum computing
• Create and coordinate access to data (example labeled data sets) necessary for various AI approaches
• Build and coordinate software and systems to support AI research and development
• Facilitate access to high quality personnel training and mentoring programs
• Synthesize research focused on sensing, cognition and action

Promote and safeguard the economic strength of B.C., Canada and its democratic allies

• Work together with the other three major AI centres of Excellence in Canada
• Bring together BC industry, university and government AI and ML communities
• Encourage global information technology companies to establish R &D facilities in B.C.
• Work with sunrise & traditional vertical sectors of the BC economy - one stop shop
• Deliver online and brief in-persons courses on AI practice, theory and applications.

Characterize and understand solutions for the global societal impacts of artificial intelligence

• Research beneficial uses of AI
• Research AI Safety
• Research and promote AI Ethics
• Research AI employment impacts and solutions
• Research AI geopolitical impacts and solutions

Network with domestic and international centres of AI excellence to advance the AIBC vision

• Collaborate with the other major AI centres in Canada to share ideas, resources and people
• Encourage the formation of research teams across the province, across the country and internationally that will advance the AIBC Vision
• Leverage access to the resources of existing research and development institutions in Canada
• Work collaboratively with policy developers with respect to labour mobility and skill acquisition
• Work with public policy researchers and governments to develop transitional social programs and institutions