Dear Minister Solomon: Advice from the arts and creative industries on AI
Talk
Public
As Canada enters a new political chapter, the government will shape the next generation of artificial intelligence policy. It’s clear that AI is a priority: the new federal Cabinet includes Evan Solomon, Canada’s first federal Minister of AI and Digital Innovation.
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Date + Time
🗓️ June 24, 2025 | ⏱️ 2:00PM EDT
Location
ZOOM
As Canada enters a new political chapter, the government will shape the next generation of artificial intelligence policy. It’s clear that AI is a priority: the new federal Cabinet includes Evan Solomon, Canada’s first federal Minister of AI and Digital Innovation.
The naming of the new AI and digital innovation minister signals the importance of this issue to the federal government’s cross-departmental agenda. The moment is right, then, to ask how the arts and creative industries can help shape the next round of Canadian AI policy.
In this policy roundtable, we’re thrilled to welcome policymakers, technologists, researchers and artists—including Quelemia Sparrow, Kate Armstrong, Jesse Mckee, Natalie Klym and moderator Kelly Wilhelm—to discuss what advice they would offer to the new Minister of AI and Digital Innovation, as well as to Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the recently renamed Canadian Culture and Identity portfolio. It will consider, for example:
- How can the arts and creative industries work with like-minded sectors towards a public benefit approach to AI?
- How museums, archives, and Indigenous knowledge holders can act as trusted intermediaries to shape the datasets AI systems learn from and compensate rights holders; and
- What kinds of interdisciplinary partnerships are needed to prototype and scale this work.
Participants will share practical pathways for cultural stakeholders to take on proactive roles in shaping the digital future.
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