Innovation minister Navdeep Bains has launched the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence to advise government on how to build Canada’s AI strengths, create economic growth and ensure AI advancements reflect Canadian values such as human rights, transparency and openness.

The new council will establish a working group on commercializing value from Canadian-owned AI and data analytics, building on the work started by the Digital Industries Economic Strategy Table. It will also provide advice on how best to advance the goals laid out in the Canada-France Statement on Artificial Intelligence.

The advisory council will be co-chaired by Foteini Agrafioti, chief science officer for the Royal Bank of Canada, and Yoshua Bengio, scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. Other members advisory council include:

• Pierre Boivin, president and CEO, Claridge
• Natalie Cartwright, co-founder and chief operating officer, Finn AI
• Marc-Antoine Dilhac, Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory, Université de Montréal
• Eli Fathi, co-founder and CEO, MindBridge Analytics Inc.
• Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific advisor, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology, University of Ottawa
• Jordan Kyriakidis, co-founder and CEO, QRA Corp
• AJung Moon, director, Open Roboethics Institute
• Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, University of Ottawa
• Elissa Strome, executive director of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR
• Richard Sutton, chief science advisor, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
• Geneviève Tanguay, VP of Emerging Technologies, National Research Council Canada