Keeping Up
Some of these are obvious (like the newspapers of record, key magazines), others might be more difficult to find without a few pointers. If you have a favourite and don’t see it in this list, send a note to [email protected] and we’ll add it. Also, do check out our “documents” page.
The New York Times and The Guardian both maintain good coverage of artificial intelligence both in their reporting and in their opinion pages. They also provide a consolidated link to the topic.
- https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/artificial-intelligence
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai
The Atlantic and The New Yorker also have excellent coverage of AI topics and issues:
Here in Canada, the Globe and Mail does a pretty good job but it is behind a paywall:
Blogs and bloggers that we follow include:
- Zvi Mowshowitz: https://thezvi.substack.com
- Jack Clark: https://jack-clark.net
- Paul Ford’s Ftrain: https://ftrain.com
- Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com
- Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander): https://www.astralcodexten.com
- Nathan Lambert: https://www.interconnects.ai
- Gary Marcus: https://garymarcus.substack.com (critic of doomers)
Non-profits and news aggregators
- AI Futures Project: https://blog.aifutures.org
- AI Frontiers: https://newsletter.ai-frontiers.org
- Understanding AI: https://www.understandingai.org
- AI Policy Perspectives: https://www.aipolicyperspectives.com
- AI Risk News Feed: https://www.airiskexplorer.com/news
- AI StopWatch: https://aistop.watch
- Humans on AI: https://p3humansonai.substack.com
- Transformer: https://www.transformernews.ai
- LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com
- Axios AI+: https://www.axios.com/technology/automation-and-ai
Research institutes
- Forethought: https://www.forethought.org
- Palisade Research: https://palisaderesearch.org
- Redwood Research: https://blog.redwoodresearch.org
- METR: https://metr.org/research/
- Foreword (newsletter from Forethought): https://newsletter.forethought.org
Think tanks
- Brookings: https://www.brookings.edu/topics/artificial-intelligence/
- RAND: https://www.rand.org/topics/artificial-intelligence.html
Company blogs
- DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/blog/
- OpenAI: https://openai.com/news/
- Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research
Magazines
- IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org
- MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/
Canadian sources (in addition to the Globe and Mail, above)
- Evitable: https://evitable.com
- ISED
- Main page: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/artificial-intelligence-ecosystem
- Advisory Council: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/advisory-council-artificial-intelligence
- CAISI: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/canadian-artificial-intelligence-safety-institute
- AI Strategy: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/pan-canadian-artificial-intelligence-strategy
- Senate
- House of Commons
- Cohere: https://cohere.com
- MILA (U of Montreal): https://mila.quebec/en
- AMII (Alberta): https://www.amii.ca
- Vector (Toronto): https://vectorinstitute.ai
- AI Policy Group: https://www.aipolicygroup.ca
- Canada AI Policy reading list: https://canadaaipolicy.com
- CanadianAI: https://canadianai.org
- AIGS Canada: https://aigs.ca
- CIGI AI Papers: https://www.cigionline.org/topics/artificial-intelligence/
- CAIAI: https://www.caiai.ca/ai-consulting-canada/ai-policy-governance-planning/
- CIFA: https://cifar.ca/ai/ai-insights-for-policymakers/
Prominent Canadian AI Researchers & Pioneers
- Geoffrey Hinton: Known as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” his foundational work in deep neural networks at the University of Toronto launched the modern AI revolution. [1]
- Yoshua Bengio: Founder of Mila in Montreal and a recipient of the Turing Award, he is a world leader in deep learning and AI safety/alignment research. [1, 2, 3]
- Richard Sutton: A professor at the University of Alberta and Amii, he pioneered reinforcement learning principles that underpin modern AI feedback systems like ChatGPT. [1, 2]
- Andrej Karpathy: A Slovak-Canadian researcher known for his work in deep learning and computer vision at OpenAI, Tesla, and Anthropic, plus founding Eureka Labs. [1]
- Ilya Sutskever: A prominent researcher and former Chief Scientist at OpenAI who shaped large-scale neural network breakthroughs.
- Aidan Gomez & Nick Frosst: Co-founders of Canadian AI unicorn Cohere, advancing enterprise large language models.
Full list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_artificial_intelligence_researchers