AIGS Canada releases 2025 white paper, Preparing for the AI Crisis: A Plan for Canada
Reports warns that the Canadian government may have less than 18 months to act
OTTAWA, October 21, 2025 - Canada’s leader in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and safety, AIGS Canada, has released its 2025 white paper, Preparing for the AI Crisis: A Plan for Canada.
The annual report highlights the current race by leading AI labs to build smarter-than-human AI systems, and details key public policy recommendations.
Accelerating developments in AI are enabling important opportunities, but the concerns about its impacts on jobs, education, relationships, culture, misinformation, privacy, cybercrime, and warfare are growing and are early symptoms of a brewing global crisis.
To prepare Canada for the AI crisis, the federal government should focus on the following actions:
- Pivot to meet the AI crisis Governments may have less than 18 months before leading AI labs develop smarter-than-human AI. Its development is likely to cause a range of global crises including from major accidents, geopolitical conflict, systemic job impacts, economic and fiscal shocks, and public unrest.
- Spearhead the global response International agreements will be essential to reduce conflict, increase safety, and ensure the benefits of AI are widely shared.
- Build Canada’s resilience While domestic action alone cannot protect Canadians against the risks, plenty can and must be done to mitigate the secondary impacts - such as AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, supply chain disruption from accidents or conflict, fiscal shocks from sustained job losses, and loss of access to foreign compute.
- Engage Canadians in a national conversation on AI Canadians deserve to be informed and consulted on a technology that will reshape their lives. With its relative stability, educated population, and strong AI ecosystem, Canada is in a good position to pilot such a conversation.
“As with the lead-up to previous crises, there is currently no adult in the room, no global monitoring and accountability system ensuring that AI development is safe and beneficial for all. On the contrary, AI development is currently the Wild West,” said AIGS Canada Founder and Executive Director Wyatt Tessari L’Allié. “In this global crisis, Canada’s best contribution is leadership - to spearhead global talks while building resilience at home.”
Read the full white paper: https://aigs.ca/preparing-for-the-ai-crisis.pdf
About AIGS Canada:
Artificial Intelligence Governance & Safety Canada (AIGS Canada) is a nonpartisan not-for-profit and a community of people across the country, working to ensure that advanced AI is safe and beneficial for all. Since 2022, AIGS Canada has provided the federal government with forward-looking public interest policy and recommendations. www.aigs.ca
For further information please contact: Tieja MacLaughlin, media@aigs.ca, Tel: (613) 519-2803