Catalogue: AI in the Public Sector clear
2 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: Canada (17)
Since April 2019, Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making has required every federal automated decision system to complete a public Algorithmic Impact Assessment …
Canada's signals-intelligence agency runs Assemblyline, an open-sourced ML malware triage platform, plus a separate classifier flagging threats commodity antivirus misses across ~900,000 …
Canada's Drug Agency ran a peer-reviewed, 7-project comparison of Lens.org, SpiderCite and Microsoft Copilot against manual systematic-review search for drug-reimbursement evidence, finding …
Canada's IRCC uses an AI eligibility model to triage and auto-approve routine IEC work permits. Launched Nov 2023 with a published Algorithmic …
Since 2018 Canada's immigration department has used predictive-analytics models to triage visa applications, fast-tracking routine cases and flagging complex ones for officer …
A May 2026 audit found roughly 12,000 Ontario public servants visited unsecured AI websites, only 3% completed AI training, and hospital AI …
Canada's Translation Bureau built GCtranslate, trained on an 8-billion-word bilingual corpus; a departmental pilot translated 60M+ words in 3 months, reaching 300M+ …
Canada Revenue Agency uses ML and AI-powered analytics to detect unwarranted GST/HST refund claims. Since 2017–18, over C$1.1 billion in carousel-scheme fraud …
On 28 November 2025 Canada published the federal government's first public AI Register, logging 400+ AI systems across 42 institutions — including …
Since April 2019, Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making has made federal departments score AI risk and publish Algorithmic Impact Assessments before go-live; …
Bank of Canada researchers used ML on payments-system data to nowcast GDP and trade during COVID-19, cutting forecast error 20–40% versus benchmarks …
On 28 November 2025 Canada published its first federal AI Register, listing 409 systems across 42 institutions. An independent review found only …
Canada's National Research Council built open speech and 'ReadAlong' tools for 27 Indigenous languages, guided since 2018 by an Indigenous advisory committee, …
Launched November 2025 by the Treasury Board Secretariat, Canada's AI Register publicly lists AI systems across federal institutions — consolidating impact assessments …
Hamilton, Ontario uses an AI tool to pre-screen building-permit applications against zoning setback rules. The city reports a 60% cut in review …
Weekly Copilot Chat use by 15,000+ Ontario public servants saved nearly 3 hours/week each, but the province's Auditor General found the sanctioned …
ISED's 30-day consultation on Canada's next AI strategy drew 11,300 respondents and 64,600 answers, the largest in the department's history, then used …
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