"A coordinated Canadian approach to AI education could become our international differentiator—setting us apart from the fractured approaches seen in the United States and elsewhere," writes Chris Kennedy. "Imagine a national commitment to AI literacy and digital citizenship that becomes our educational signature globally. A collaborative approach to education that honours Indigenous knowledge alongside scientific understanding. A shared investment in modernizing curriculum and assessment—not to standardize, but to reimagine and humanize." I'm not going to say the idea is a bad one, though it is understandably vague. But I'm not sure what a national consensus would look like. I don't think AI - or AI literacy, for that matter - is just another subject you can teach the way you currently teach math or physics. AI becomes implicated ion the teaching from the outset, and rapidly enables people to begin learning on their own. A consensus among teachers might be as dedicated to stopping that as to supporting it. If there's a Canadian approach here, it's going to be something like ensuring nobody is left out, so we all share in the benefits from AI. But, again, that's a little vague.
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