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
• Responsible use of artificial intelligence in government
• Government of Canada: Digital Ambition
• Policy on Service and Digital
• Government of Canada: Digital Standards

Artificial Intelligence Examples in the GC

• EVA (ESDC Virtual Assistant)

a groundbreaking Generative AI tool designed to assist ESDC employees using Generative AI tools like ChatGPT & Bing Chat as an employee work-aid at ESDC. EVA is not just an AI; it's an employee work-aid tailored specifically for diverse and dynamic teams.

Videos

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

Articles

• 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 Tools

• [Co-Pilot (Microsoft)

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)

To view the various Canadian academic A.I. programs, click here.

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
• 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

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

A.I. Organizations - Research and Training Materials

• Deliotte
• Gartner
• Info Tech
• KPMG
• Oracle
• PWC

Public Policy/Administration Organizations - Research and Training Materials

• IOG
• OECD
• IPAC

Credits

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