The Toronto-based accelerator will run a 12-month program for five organizations including the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation and Canadian Cancer Society. Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) staff will help participating non-profits develop AI strategies and implementation plans, and OpenAI engineers will work with them to develop tools using the technology. (The Logic)

Talking point: The program is a charity-focused offshoot of CDL’s Putting AI to Work initiative, which tries to get AI into big businesses. Non-profits are “increasingly being asked to do more, [and] AI has the capacity to scale outcomes,” said Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer. The San Francisco-headquartered firm is also adding the Vancouver Board of Trade as the first Canadian partner in its AI Certification program, which trains and tests workers on AI. OpenAI touts the two initiatives as examples of the benefits it can bring to Canada’s economy and society, as it seeks a role in Canada’s development of sovereign AI.