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AI Assistant for Government of Canada Employees

Accountable

Shared Services Canada (SSC)

Functional Modes

Creating (Generative AI)

Human decides

Purpose

Inform

Input Dataset

About behaviour Pseudonymous data

Algorithm or Model

Language Models

Output Dataset

Generated content Anonymized data

Details

CANChat is a generative AI chatbot available to Government of Canada employees for general-purpose tasks such as drafting, summarizing, and answering questions. It runs on a secure, government-controlled infrastructure that keeps data within Canada and favours Canadian AI solutions. Users should be aware that outputs are generated by a large language model and may require human review before being used in official work.

Sources for this disclosure

AI register
Government of Canada AI Register — CANChat (2526-SSC-SPC-001)
Shared Services Canada, Government of Canada Algorithmic Impact Assessment Register, record 2526-SSC-SPC-001.

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

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