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COMMENTARY: Islanders don't need to adopt AI first. We need to adopt it well

Statistics Canada is surveying workers about artificial intelligence again this month. When the results arrive, they’ll tell us whether Islanders are still as cautious about AI at work as earlier surveys have shown. I believe our caution can be an advantage, if we use it well.

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Atlantic Canadians are among the least likely in the country to use generative AI at work: 18 per cent in Statistics Canada’s most recent regional figures, compared with 25 per cent in British Columbia. The C.D. Howe Institute, analysing Statistics Canada data, reports that Island businesses plan to use less AI this year than last.

That might sound like falling behind, but it isn’t, necessarily. Across the country, firms that rushed in have little to show for it. KPMG reports that 93 per cent of Canadian organizations say they’ve adopted........

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