Canada Targets 60 Percent AI Adoption by 2034 as Astrophysicists Fear AI Could Kill Their Field

Canada's national AI strategy, titled "AI for All," sets a target of 60 percent business adoption by 2034, up from just 12 percent today, according to Complete Ai Training. The plan aims to create up to 250,000 new jobs and rests on six pillars including a $50 million expansion of the Canadian AI Safety Institute, free AI literacy programs reaching 1 million post-secondary students, training for more than 3,000 K-12 educators, and sovereign computing capacity, with health, energy, transportation, agriculture and manufacturing named as priority sectors.

Researchers warn AI tools could lead to "nothing less than the death of astrophysics," according to Techradar, with NYU computational astrophysicist David Hogg saying "a lot of people think that it's too late to intervene" as AI increasingly performs the tasks that traditionally trained young scientists, and journal editors reporting a surge of AI-assisted submissions that is straining peer review at the American Astronomical Society.

TMBThanachart Bank chief executive Piti Tantakasem urged organizations to define business outcomes before buying technology, telling a Microsoft forum in Thailand "do not buy AI licences and hand them out to everyone," per Bangkok Post, as the Thai government plans to spend more than 1.6 billion baht to give up to 5 million Thais free access to premium generative AI models for one year.

Techradar's quote of the day revisited Google CEO Sundar Pichai's claim that AI is "more profound than electricity or fire," a statement that still frames how the industry talks about the technology's long-run stakes.

Sources:

• Complete Ai Training
• Techradar Au
• Bangkok Post
• Techradar Nz