Special Report

Canada helped lay the foundations for today’s AI boom. Can it reap the rewards?

The artificial intelligence boom presents Canada with unique opportunities and risks as we seek to benefit from a technology that could reshape how we live.

In this special series, Canada’s AI Advantage, The Logic examines how Canadian companies, investors, institutions and workers can gain from the country’s early lead in AI, even as Canada’s pioneers in the field become the world’s most powerful voices of caution.

On a trip to California a few years ago, Ruslan Salakhutdinov made time to hang out with some old school chums. A decade earlier, the group had shared a lab at the University of Toronto—and a massive achievement. 

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