Alberta is actively adoption artificial intelligence technologies.
Tools “from companies like Anthropic and Google” are helping to support and protect critical government services, from social programs and registries to wildfire response and public safety, according to the province.
Over the past 18 months, the Ministry of Technology and Innovation has built a set of AI tools to document and transform decades-old technologies.
For example, Alberta deployed a team of AI agents to review more than 466 million lines of government code—work that would have taken years by hand, according to the government.
Based on what it knows about AI, Alberta is sharing a series of “Velocity White Papers” as a free resource.
“The tools our team built are world-class, and we are sharing them openly because every government is stuck with the same aging systems we were,” says Nate Glubish, Minister of Technology and Innovation.
“The Velocity Papers are the first defensible, in-production blueprint for an agentic public service,” believes Cole Cioran, managing partner, Canadian Public Sector, Info-Tech Research Group. “Their release as open source is not only an opportunity for the public service but a windfall for every Canadian SME looking to build their own agentic advantage.”
Alberta’s approach “is remarkably innovative,” suggests Brian Peters, head of North America Government Affairs for Anthropic, adding: “We’re committed to helping other governments build on what Alberta has established.”
The province is emerging as “the North Star in Canada’s government transformation,” posits Farsad Nasseri, country managing director for Google Cloud Canada.
The work builds on Alberta’s AI Academy, a free and open resource to help every public servant learn to work with AI.
Since it launched in 2025, the Academy has trained more than 2,000 public servants.
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