Created by Ironstone Advisory.
AI strategy is not for the timid
Canada needs A new AI strategy and brand new economic policy to exist in growth in the current environment and the changes that are occurring rapidly around us. In some cases these changes have been going on already it’s just the impact now are being felt and understood better than ever before.
This program will involve thousands of people and hundreds of businesses, from one person ritual companies, to them are most complex and largest companies by employee count and market cap.
The program is a 5 or 10-year program at a cost of $10 to 20 billion dollars. Now that I have your attention hear some of the policy pieces to make up the program. There does not need to be an AI czar in this country.. but we need to organize around new technology to change the future of the the country and all those enterprises and communities.
The 12 Policy Pillers
1. Establishing Strategic Partnerships:
Canada should forge a strategic partnership with Cohere, providing it with exclusive access to unique bilingual datasets, including all CBC assets. This exclusive data access will position Canada as a leader in AI research and development, fostering innovation in natural language processing and other AI applications.
2. Infrastructure Fund for Data Centers:
Canada should establish an infrastructure fund to build data centers near hydroelectric power dams and nuclear power plants. Leveraging the existing land around underutilized aluminum plants will provide low-cost, sustainable energy for these data centers. This initiative will support the growing computational demands of AI development and other data-intensive industries.
3. Distributed Compute Power Expansion:
Implement a city-by-city strategy to expand compute power within a 200 km radius of each major city, prioritizing from the largest to the smallest. This approach mirrors the historical development of railways, ensuring flexible and scalable data centers that can adapt to technological advancements over the next century.
4. National AI Institute:
Establish a national AI institute by convening 100 experts from leading universities and pedagogy fields. This institute should develop new curricula at an accelerated pace, with a centralized yet decentralized model. All data centers and libraries at participating universities should share information instantly, creating a comprehensive and accessible repository of datasets and historical documents for algorithm development.
5. Resource Allocation Framework:
Develop a transparent and adaptable framework to efficiently allocate resources when they are utilized, ensuring optimal use of national assets and investments. This is a registry of resources, people, agents, software, pipelines, loans, and investment funds. The basis of this registry should be open access, transparency and utilization of some kind of distributed ledger.
6. Telecommunications Reform:
Immediately reduce the cost of telecommunications by restructuring monopolistic practices. Offer tax credits to entrepreneurial businesses with revenues over $1 million to halve their telecom costs, including satellite, wireless, and wired infrastructure. Implement rigorous regulation to ensure telecom companies innovate beyond profit motives, with penalties for non-compliance. After the telecom reorganization occurs, the rest of all the oligopolies in Canada across major industries will be normalized in a similar fashion. United major market whether it be banking or food retail if there are only three or four companies that comprise deleted that market it will be treated as monopolies and undergo regulation reform. Monopolies are the antithesis of capitalism and a threat to personal freedoms and rights.
7. Canadian IP Sharing and Royalty Model:
Create a new Canadian intellectual property sharing and royalty arrangement modeled after successful programs at Waterloo, Stanford, and MIT. Mandate uniform adoption across all universities and colleges to stimulate national innovation.
8. Consolidation of Accelerators and Incubators:
Rapidly consolidate half of Canada’s accelerators and incubators, centralizing software and IP management. This hybrid approach will facilitate equitable distribution of resources globally, enhancing the effectiveness of innovation programs. Most of the current incubators have turned into employment programs for administrators, and actual sinks that stop innovation from occurring because it gives false security to young companies. All of these programs have to move towards and “own the podium” style of success. This is not an equitable program in the least especially with companies that have scaled. Once they have scaled we should be betting asymmetrically on the results. This is a winning value system. Entrepreneurship, should not be treated like UBI. It should be like massive government investment in the infrastructure of the future of the country that now depends on algorithms, data and compute.
9. Taxation Policy Review:
Reevaluate taxation policies related to capital gains, angel investing, and venture capital investing. Aim to balance capital distribution, aligning investor interests with innovators and businesses to promote sustainable growth.
10. Modernizing the SR&ED Program:
Revise the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program to include special provisions for compute power, algorithm creation, and the utilization of APIs and custom AI agents. This modernization will ensure the program supports contemporary technological needs.
11. Cyber Risk Transparency:
Mandate public transparency for cyber risk management across banks, insurance companies, oil companies, and agriculture companies. This transparency will drive demand for defensive technologies, reducing focus on entertainment and surveillance, and ultimately lowering insurance costs through improved stability and security.
12. Climate Adaptation Insurance — Policy Group:
Establish a specialized group focusing on insurance and climate adaptation, recognizing it as the most significant expense for Canadian businesses in the coming century. This group should integrate with other national initiatives, promoting overlap and synergy to enhance transparency and organizational efficiency at an unprecedented level. The complexity of the problem of climate adaption and survival is as complex and chaotic as going to Mars and building colonies except the colony is here and the danger is here now in change if we don’t prepare for it and invest in the resiliency of all our systems. The country needs to take the opportunity of change of technology to reframe the way we build things and live on this planet in the country that is within our secured borders. With climate adoption this is not just coastline changes... And rising seawater this Also what animal migration and the opening of new arable land that was never available in Canada before, and new trade routes and paths. Within a couple hundred years we’ll have roads in rail in the wrong places through no fault of anybody. I’m like the Netherlands we don’t have to build dykes in this country we have to build a country as our forefathers did.
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This proposal aims to position Canada as a global leader in AI and technological innovation, ensuring sustainable growth and resilience in an increasingly digital world. By implementing these policies, Canada will foster a thriving ecosystem of innovation, collaboration, and economic prosperity.
