WTH is AI Sovereignty? + The Internet Gatekeepers

**Dylan Reibling** (0:02)
Maybe the problems that you're experiencing with the Internet, censorship, surveillance, corporate control of information, that's not an inherent quality of the Internet. It's because the powers of the Internet have fallen into the hands of a small centralized group of people, the platforms, the governments, any sort of like sort of mediated force, the Internet service providers that control the pipelines.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:34)
The Amber Mac Show on Canada Talks, SiriusXM 167

**Amber Mac** (0:40)
Welcome to The Amber Mac Show. Coming up in today's episode, we just wrapped up some events at Toronto Tech Week, so we're going to share some takeaways that really explain this moment in time here in Canada and around the world.

**Jeff MacArthur** (0:51)
It's so great to be here in person, and I'm really looking forward to the discussion about Toronto Tech Week, which was just amazing to get to.
Plus, our guest this week is the filmmaker behind The End of the Internet, which is a movie about the invisible operating system of the modern world. Before we get into that interview, let's dive into what made news at Toronto Tech Week and what it means for the future of Canada and the world.

**Amber Mac** (1:20)
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Jeff, we have had a great few days at Toronto Tech Week. And it is so nice to have you here in person in the studio in Toronto. It's been way too long.

**Jeff MacArthur** (2:14)
Yeah, absolutely. It's great to be up here. Not only was Toronto Tech Week great, we went and saw The Band Cake, which was super awesome too, but we'll stick to tech for this particular segment. And yeah, we saw a lot of friends of the shows out there, the show out there this week too.

**Amber Mac** (2:31)
Yeah, let's talk a little bit about that because it just occurred to me as we were wandering around Toronto Tech Week that we ran into quite a few past guests of our show. We saw Minister Evan Solomon, who's our Minister of AI. He had a great session. We'll talk about that in a bit. We also saw Cam Gordon. He wrote the book Track Changes. He also used to run communications for Twitter Canada.
Sinead Bovell, who was a futurist. I loved her session about the future of work.

**Jeff MacArthur** (2:56)
Yeah, Closed Off Homecoming. That was a very good segment at the end there to have.

**Amber Mac** (3:00)
And we got to catch up with her a little bit after that as well.

**Jeff MacArthur** (3:03)
Got to say hi to David Usher, which was great. He's been on the show and is a really interesting guy who's been out around this week as well.

**Amber Mac** (3:10)
And Christina Fox, the CEO at Tech Alliance in London, Ontario. We had a really long catch up with her too, talking about innovation. And I love the conversation we had with her on a past episode. And finally, of course, Douglas Soltis from Beta Kit. We saw him a few times and they did a great job. And maybe that's probably a lot of where we're going to start in terms of the first theme that is sovereignty.

**Jeff MacArthur** (3:36)
Yeah, the Beta Kit event was fantastic on Monday. And so they had Evan Solomon there. He was talking about all the AI-related stuff. He was the Minister of AI, how the government wants to be enabling large data centers, the supercomputer RFP that's coming out or closing this month, I believe.
And I think he pointed out a lot of success stories with photonic chips and Kanata and all sorts of stuff like that. But when talking about sovereignty, he made a real point to say that sovereignty is not solitude, that the Canada can't isolate ourselves. It's just not possible in the modern tech world.

**Amber Mac** (4:18)
We should also say that the minister did talk about the country's AI strategy. And while people are hearing this or watching this, they may have had a chance to look at it because it is coming soon, apparently.