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Canada recently completed an online consultation about our country's AI strategy. There has been much criticism that the AI task force that was created is overly representative of the tech industry and not representative enough of Canadian society. Here are a few interesting and thoughtful submissions you should be aware of that try to address this fatal flaw in our government's strategy.

An ARAISA and ISANS collaboration, this October 2024 webinar is part of a series of webinars to address the dynamic and evolving subject of integrating AI in our sector. This session explores creative and practical uses of popular AI-driven educational tools that simplify planning and materials creation for instructors.

I'll try to keep myself focused, and these posts focused, on ensuring that we're not just diving into the hype. But that we look at AI just like we should look at any technology, existing or emerging. With an ethical and responsible lens. Here are a few good starting points.

Over the last decade, humanitarian organizations have digitized many of their systems, from registering refugees with biometric IDs to transporting cargo via drones. This has helped deliver aid around the world, but it's also brought new risks to the people it's meant to protect. Tech and human rights ethicist Aarathi Krishnan points to the dangers of digitization -- like sensitive data getting into the hands of the wrong people -- and lays out five ethical principles to help inform humanitarian tech innovation.

I've written previously how the 2017 Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice is very applicable to the Canadian context, including the work Immigrant and Refugee-serving organizations do. It's a sector we should be paying attention to, because it is close in scope and focus to Settlement work, and is a regulated sector. What they do, we should adapt. What they learn, we should study. We don't, but we should.

I work at the intersection of health and immigrant and refugee settlement now. To be completely honest, I thought the healthcare sector was much further along when it comes to digital transformation. Turns out, not really. At least, not in the comprehensive and sectoral way I thought they might be. They're a regulated sector, with strict laws and regulations when it comes to Personal Health Information (PHI), so they have to be even more thoughtful about how they approach tech and people. Other than that, there are as many questions, concerns, discussions, innovations, ideas, curiousity, and uncertainty as anywhere else.

This November 2025 P2P Conference plenary explores change drivers, focusing on how emerging technologies are influencing, and will continue to influence, immigration and settlement in Canada. The session looked at advances in AI and digital tools and their impact on: immigration decision-making and processes, the way in which information is accessed and used, and the delivery of services to newcomers.

This November 2025 P2P Conference presentation provides an overview of how AI is rapidly transforming how work is organized and who benefits from new opportunities. This session explores the impact of AI on newcomers and equity-deserving workers, using national labour market data to identify which groups are most affected by automation and digital task change.

OK, so you're using ChatGPT or one of many other AI chatbots. Are you maximizing your chat prompts? If you're not sure, there are some great sites and resources out there. Some offer really great prompting frameworks. Others offer sample prompts you can copy, paste, customize and use across various AI chatbots. Some are non-profit specific, some are not, but still very useful. Here are a few.