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AI Chatbot for Census Reference Materials

Accountable

Statistics Canada (StatCan)

Functional Modes

Creating (Generative AI)

Human decides

Purpose

Inform

Input Dataset

Operational data Anonymized data

Algorithm or Model

Language Models

Output Dataset

Generated content Anonymized data

Details

CensAI is a generative AI chatbot developed by Statistics Canada to help members of the public navigate thousands of pages of census documentation. It answers questions about census concepts by drawing on official reference materials. Users are informed that they are interacting with an AI system. The system has been retired from active use.