
Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

Fifteen minutes at AI Day 2.0 in Robson Square, one working mic, one bar of wifi. Both hands full, what really came out of ALL IN Montreal, and the chalk line that says no slogan gets…

Neil Postman did not predict AI. He left us something more useful: a discipline for refusing to treat any technology as the weather. Here is what technological resistance looks like in 2026.

Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.

AI will not repair broken civic systems by itself. Permit reform needs better process, public accountability, and human judgment before automation can help.

Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.