The guidelines recommend caution when using AI for things like public communications on social media or automating assessments, recommendations or decisions about clients. The government's new rules on generative AI are "not about replacing employees at all," says Treasury Board President Anita Anand. Carr said the government's new generative AI guidelines need some work. Things that we had to do by hand can be done in nanoseconds by computers using AI, she said. Chris Aylward, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says AI should enhance public service jobs - not replace them.
