🛡️ The Paradox of Digital Sovereignty: What Canada’s AI Sprint Reveals About Our Collective Future

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We keep imagining AI as a centralized brain in a data center, getting smarter and smarter until it solves everything or destroys everything. But what if the future of intelligence is distributed? What if it's millions of people in constant conversation, constantly debating values and priorities, and AI systems that learn from that living stream of democratic discourse?  What if that is our emerging economy that attracts others worldwide?

The question is whether we have the courage to build something genuinely new, or whether we'll just optimize the systems that are already crushing us.

That's the sprint we're really running.

The Canadian ISED AI consultation provided 64,600 distinct answers to that question. Now comes the harder part: Deciding which answers we will live by.

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