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The AI North Brief
The Sovereign Technology Alliance
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Description
Canada and Germany signed an AI cooperation agreement at the Munich Security Conference, launching the Sovereign Technology Alliance. The deal focuses on compute infrastructure, AI research, and talent development. It explicitly names Yoshua Bengio's LawZero as a potential area for collaboration. The signing comes as the Munich conference wrapped with warnings about "wrecking-ball politics" and the fracturing of the rules-based international order. This episode examines what the declaration actually does, what it doesn't do, and how it fits into Canada's broader pivot toward middle-power partnerships.
Sources:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11668118/canada-signs-ai-declaration-germany/
https://lawzero.org/en/news/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-new-nonprofit-advancing-safe-design-ai
https://time.com/7290554/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-for-safer-ai/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/munich-security-trump-carney-9.7077801
https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report/2026/
https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/02/11/how-ai-is-affecting-canadas-job-market/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/carney-cancels-trip-to-europe-following-bc-school-shooting/
Tags
AI North Brief, Canadian AI, AI Policy, Canada Germany, Sovereign Technology Alliance, Munich Security Conference, Evan Solomon, LawZero, Yoshua Bengio, AI Safety, Sovereign Compute, Mark Carney
Chapter Markers
00:00 Intro 00:45 What the Declaration Actually Does 02:30 The Context That Matters 04:00 What It Does Not Do 05:30 The Bigger Picture