As AI systems move from answering questions to taking actions on our behalf, transparency is no longer enough. Canada’s emerging AI framework will need to confront a harder question: how do we establish accountability when autonomous agents act, transact and interact across digital systems?

Artificial intelligence may reshape Canada's labour market without producing mass layoffs. Early evidence suggests the first pressure may emerge somewhere quieter: in the opportunities available to workers trying to enter AI-exposed occupations.

Canada’s AI challenge is shifting from access to adoption. The real test is whether businesses can turn widespread experimentation into productivity, capability and meaningful organizational change.