This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Some fleeting thoughts on the government of Canada’s artifical intelligence announcement on Thursday. Prime Minister Mark Carney says it can create up to 90,000 AI-related jobs and work opportunities for Canadians by 2031. The flip side of that, as I said these are just fleeting thoughts, is how many jobs are being lost because of AI? How many jobs are being lost and consumed by artifical intelligence taken from Canadians currently doing the job in person? Because in addition to those 90000 AI related jobs the government says its strategy will help create up to 250,000 new jobs through AI adoption by 2031. They are also pushing businesses to adopt AI with a goal of going from 12 per cent participation now to 60 per cent in 8 years. Apparently Canadians will be given free AI literacy training. Critics are now saying the plan lacks enough detail on how Canadians will be protected from possible adverse effects. Just this week, while on Facebook – I didn’t even click into it – but there was a picture of Adrienne Arsenault with CBC and Gaylon Weston of Loblaws and everything about the body language was completely foreign to what anyone had ever seen if you’d previously viewed them in a public forum. I thought this is completely fake. And it was. I don’t think the federal government has truly wrapped its head around how the average Canadian is going to be protected from artifical intelligence being misused.