Canada's national artificial intelligence governance system: Dataset from interviews with 20 government leaders & subject matter experts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anonymized aggregate data from interviews with 20 government leaders and subject matter experts. The data was collected as part of a study of Canada's national system of artificial intelligence governance. The data was collected from February 2023 to July 2023. The dataset contains 610 topics that emerged from thematic analysis of interview transcripts from July 2023 to October 2023. The contexts, actors, resources, networks, evaluations, logics, functional bounds, rules, ecosystem-level dynamics, opportunities for improvement, and other topics contained in the dataset collectively represent the most significant components of Canada's national AI governance system that emerged over the course of the interviews with the 20 participants. Topics in analytical dimensions 1, 3, and 6-11 contain counts of the frequency with which aggregate topics emerged across each of the interviews with the 20 participants. Topics in analytical dimensions 2, 4, and 5 contain categories instead of frequency counts: the topics in these dimensions represent every unique actor, resource, and network that emerged over the course of the interviews instead of aggregate topics. Column titles contain the following abbreviations: LEAD: Interviews with leaders of public sector AI governance initiatives. SME-PS: Interviews with subject matter experts employed in the private sector. SME-CS: Interviews with subject matter experts employed in the academic or civil sectors.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.018 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.012 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".