Artificial Intelligence

The following is a list of resources to help public servants learn about the basics of Artificial Intelligence, please feel free to add your own content, or contact Jeff Outram.

GC Guiding & Supporting Documents

• Government of Canada: AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027: Priority areas
• Directive on Automated Decision-Making
• Government of Canada Trust and Transparency Strategy
• Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Government
• Guide on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Government of Canada: Digital Ambition
• Policy on Service and Digital
• Government of Canada: Digital Standards
• Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems (ISED)

Artificial Intelligence Examples in the GC

• For a list of examples of A.I. tools in the GC, go to: GCpedia.

Glossaries

• Basic glossary of A.I. terms - Yale University
• AI Ethics Living Dictionary - Montreal AI Ethics Institute

For a more advanced glossary, visit Wikipedia.

Videos

• Prompt Engineering Tutorial – Master ChatGPT and LLM Responses - FreeCodeCamp.org (41 Minutes)
• Prompt Engineering 101 - Crash Course & Tips - AssemblyAI (14 minutes)

Articles

• Technology 101 - Generative artificial intelligence - SSC (2 minutes)
• Prompt Engineering 101: Introduction and resources - Amatria (12 minutes)
• Prompt Engineering 101 - HumanLoop (10 minutes)
• Prompt Engineering - AssemblyAI (10 minutes)
• Best practices for prompt engineering with the OpenAI AP - OpenAI (10 minutes)
• How to Write Good AI Prompts: A Beginner’s Guide (+12 Templates) - Magical (10 minutes)
• Writing ChatGPT Prompts That Get Results (with Examples) - Grammarly (10 minutes)

Guides

• Mastering ChatGPT: How to Craft Effective Prompts (Full Guide) - GPTbot (15 minutes)

Online Courses

• Effective Prompt Engineering for AI - Coursera (2 hours, 20 minutes)
• Advanced Prompt Engineering Methods - Coursera (53 minutes)
• Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Generative AI - Coursera (1 hour, 23 minutes)
• Prompt Engineering Specialization - Coursera (40 hours)

Specific A.I. Tools - Learning Resouces

• Co-Pilot (Microsoft)
• ChatGPT
• LLaMA (Meta)
• GitHub Copilot
• DALL-E (OpenAI)
• Midjourney
• Stable Diffusion

Resources offered by the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)

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Resources offered by the Canada Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)

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Academic Programs offered by Universities and Colleges (Canada)

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Academic Programs offered by Universities and Colleges (U.S.A)

• Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate - Stanford University online (1-2 years)
• Artificial Intelligence Professional Program - Stanford University School of Engineering (1.5 years)
• Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy - MIT Sloan School (6 weeks)
• A.I. Essentials for Business - Harvard Business School online (4 weeks)

Related GC Communities (GCXchange)

• GC AI Hub - Carrefour de l'IA du GC

• Applied Text Analytics and Generative AI CoP
• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Group (AIDSG)
• CPDI Community of Practice on Data and Information
• CSA's AI Community of Practice (link needed)
• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science Network for the Federal Public Service
• Digital Analytics Community of Practice
• ESDC's Artificial Intelligence Center of Enablement (AICoE) (link needed)
• Generative AI Community

Related GC Communities (GCcollab)

• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science

GC Departmental Webpages

• National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces
• Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

Canadian AI Institutes

• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Edmonton, AB)
• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Toronto, ON)
• Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Montreal, QC)
• Vector Institute (Toronto, ON)

National AI Strategies, Framework & Support Documents

• OECD - Artificial Intelligence
• OECD - National A.I. Dashboards

• New Zealand

International Government Research/Resources

• UK - Microsoft 365 Copilot Experiment: Cross-Government Findings Report
• UK - Artificial intelligence resources for the public sector
• Swiss to launch open-source Large Language Model - Aug 2025
• UK - Review of consultation responses - May 2025

A.I. Industry Articles

• The 2025 AI Index Report - Stanford University: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
• AI adoption stumbles: Report highlights employee-leadership disconnect: Digital Journal, April 2025
• AI productivity for public sector: A C$700bn opportunity - Global Government Forum, March 2025
• U7+ Alliance presidents sign communiqué to advance AI in Canadian postsecondary

Professional Services Organizations - Research and Training Materials

• Accenture
• Deliotte
• Ernst and Young
• Gartner
• Info Tech
• KPMG
• Oracle
• PWC

Public Policy/Administration Organizations - Research and Training Materials

• IOG
• OECD
• IPAC

Prompting Tools

• Wharton University - Prompt Library

GPQA - A.I. Intelligence Testing

• GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark

Credits

• Brian Wray, Manager, Data Science and AI Incubation, CTOB, Shared Services Canada
• Jeff Braybrook, Senior Advisor, Digital Services, Shared Services Canada
• Kent Aitken, Director, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service
• Jeff Outram, Free Agent/Senior Advisor, Treasury Board Secretariat