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

• Gov't of Canada: AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027: Priority areas
• Directive on Automated Decision-Making

• Gov't of Canada: Digital Ambition
• Policy on Service and Digital
• Gov't of Canada: Digital Standards

Definitions

• AI
• Machine learning
• Large Language Models

Videos

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

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

• 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)

Certification Programs

• 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

• ESDC's Artificial Intelligence Center of Enablement (AICoE)

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
• Generative AI Community

Related GC Communities (GCcollab)

• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science

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

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Programs offered by Canadian Universities and Colleges

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

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Credits

• Brian Wray, Manager, Data Science and AI Incubation, CTOB, SSC
• Jeff Outram, Free Agent, Treasury Board Secretariat