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468 Does Canada Need Nationalized, Public AI?

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/15/2026 06:34 EDT

Does Canada Need Nationalized, Public AI?

While AI CEOs worry governments might nationalize AI, others are advocating for something similar. Canadian security professional Bruce Schneier and Harvard data scientist Nathan Sanders published this call to action in Canada's most widely-read newspaper (with a readership over 6 million): "Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI."


While there are Canadian AI companies, they remain for-profit enterprises, their interests not necessarily aligned with our collective good. The only real alternative is to be bo

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