Canada’s ‘AI for All’ strategy has ambitious growth targets, but it falls short on workers and the environment

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"Women are also using AI at lower rates, but simply encouraging uptake is not a straightforward solution. A recent study found that engineers believed to have used AI were rated nine per cent less competent despite producing identical work. Women faced a 13 per cent penalty, compared with six per cent for men, and greater doubts about their fundamental abilities.

The AI strategy acknowledges women’s exposure to disruption, but treats the issue largely as one of adoption and upskilling. It says much less about the workplace penalties, bias, surveillance, evaluation practices and informal norms that may shape who can safely use AI."