Canada’s approach to quantum in security and economics: feminist foreign policy or tokenizing #WomenInSTEM?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian government has released major strategy documents relating to quantum science, technology, and security in recent years. While these emerge within a broader context of self-styled “feminist” policymaking, this article represents the first study to assess the quantum strategy frameworks along the lines of feminist policymaking. After providing context to the quantum landscape in Canada, the article undertakes a close reading of the National Quantum Strategy and the DND/CAF Quantum S&T Strategy to highlight the neglect of substantive feminist considerations in formulating these policies. While the documents highlight the disruption that the development of quantum technologies will bring to society, the strategies ignore the potential for differential impacts of this disruption. This neglect of the gendered impacts of quantum disruption is especially damning for the Canadian quantum strategy given the substantial reliance on Canada’s reputation and branding as an ethical actor in world politics. The article concludes with a discussion of future research that is necessary to remediate this strategic failure.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".