{"id":8589,"date":"2026-09-16T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:39:46","slug":"canadas-ai-potential-on-sovereignty-safety-and-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/ai-technology-and-innovation\/canadas-ai-potential-on-sovereignty-safety-and-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s AI potential: On sovereignty, safety and regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div\n\tid=\"tl-fpb-1\"\n\tstyle=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/09\/Disruptors-S11-EP2_Banner-wide.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=4096);background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;min-height:500px\" class=\"tl-featured-post-banner wp-block-rbc-thought-leadership-blocks-featured-post-banner\">\n\t\t\t<div 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Disruptors\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<div style=\"width:100%;height:200px\" class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-iframe mar-b-hlf mob-mar-b-hlf\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/129c2ba9-3082-47d3-9405-0d585c4f8918?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" style=\"border:none\" title=\"Iframe Embed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mar-t-hlf mob-mar-t-hlf wp-block-paragraph\">Listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/disruptors\/id1332711400?i=1000790024204\" target=\"_blank\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-36ddf932\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"link click\" data-dig-label=\"Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rbc-link-format\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0HAOkPa4gnBySa9uN0wL2m?si=nIc6N01bTOCBUZC5TTGuJg&amp;utm_source=copy-link\" target=\"_blank\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-36ddf932\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"link click\" data-dig-label=\"Spotify\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rbc-link-format\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/129c2ba9-3082-47d3-9405-0d585c4f8918?dark=false\" target=\"_blank\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-36ddf932\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"link click\" data-dig-label=\"Simplecast\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rbc-link-format\">Simplecast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With questions swirling around AI sovereignty, safety and regulation, we bring you an important conversation this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded at the Milken Institute Global Dialogues in Toronto, Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez, RBC President and CEO Dave McKay, and Evan Solomon, Canada&#8217;s Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, discuss who should write the rules for frontier AI, why access to the most advanced tools is uneven, and whether Canada can support a global champion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<h4 id=\"h-faqs\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-rbc-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\">FAQs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-accordion accordion\" id=\"&quot;accordionSet1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-panel\"><div class=\"accordion-panel\"><button id=\"accordion-title528edcfe\" class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#accordion528edcfe\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordionSet1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-528edcfe\" aria-controls=\"accordion528edcfe\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"collapsible closed\" data-dig-label=\"&lt;strong&gt;Who is Aidan Gomez&lt;\/strong&gt;\" action-closed=\"collapsible closed\" action-opened=\"collapsible open\"><div><strong>Who is Aidan Gomez<\/strong><\/div><\/button><div class=\"collapse-content collapse\" id=\"accordion528edcfe\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title528edcfe\"><div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aidan Gomez is co-founder and CEO of Cohere, a Toronto-headquartered enterprise AI company founded in 2019 with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang. He was one of eight authors of the 2017 paper \u201cAttention Is All You Need,\u201d which introduced the transformer architecture used in modern large language models. He holds a degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from Oxford.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-panel\"><div class=\"accordion-panel\"><button id=\"accordion-title4ea0d1e4\" class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#accordion4ea0d1e4\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordionSet1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-4ea0d1e4\" aria-controls=\"accordion4ea0d1e4\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"collapsible closed\" data-dig-label=\"What is Cohere?\" action-closed=\"collapsible closed\" action-opened=\"collapsible open\"><div><strong>What is Cohere?<\/strong><\/div><\/button><div class=\"collapse-content collapse\" id=\"accordion4ea0d1e4\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title4ea0d1e4\"><div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cohere is a Canadian AI company building large language models and AI products for regulated industries including finance, healthcare, energy and the public sector, along with government. It is headquartered in Toronto with offices internationally.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-panel\"><div class=\"accordion-panel\"><button id=\"accordion-title1e6d704b\" class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#accordion1e6d704b\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordionSet1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-1e6d704b\" aria-controls=\"accordion1e6d704b\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"collapsible closed\" data-dig-label=\"&lt;strong&gt;What is the main issue discussed in this episode?&lt;\/strong&gt;\" action-closed=\"collapsible closed\" action-opened=\"collapsible open\"><div><strong>What is the main issue discussed in this episode?<\/strong><\/div><\/button><div class=\"collapse-content collapse\" id=\"accordion1e6d704b\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title1e6d704b\"><div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether Canada can convert its role in inventing modern AI into lasting economic and strategic advantage, and who should be setting the rules for frontier AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-panel\"><div class=\"accordion-panel\"><button id=\"accordion-title1c70446c\" class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#accordion1c70446c\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordionSet1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-1c70446c\" aria-controls=\"accordion1c70446c\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"collapsible closed\" data-dig-label=\"What is changing in enterprise AI right now?\" action-closed=\"collapsible closed\" action-opened=\"collapsible open\"><div><strong>What is changing in enterprise AI right now<\/strong>?<\/div><\/button><div class=\"collapse-content collapse\" id=\"accordion1c70446c\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title1c70446c\"><div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel argues Canada has the research base, the talent and a frontier-model company, but has been slower to capitalize on deployment. The question raised is whether capital, access to advanced tooling and policy can align before the window closes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-rbc-collapsible-panel\"><div class=\"accordion-panel\"><button id=\"accordion-titlea53bc262\" class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#accordiona53bc262\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordionSet1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-dig-id=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation-8589-a53bc262\" aria-controls=\"accordiona53bc262\" data-dig-category=\"LP-AI,TechnologyandInnovation\" data-dig-action=\"collapsible closed\" data-dig-label=\"What can business and policy leaders take from this?\" action-closed=\"collapsible closed\" action-opened=\"collapsible open\"><div><strong><strong>What can business and policy leaders take from this?<\/strong><\/strong><\/div><\/button><div class=\"collapse-content collapse\" id=\"accordiona53bc262\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-titlea53bc262\"><div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKay describes product development cycles compressing sharply, with work that previously took years now measured in months. 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