Our Programs
Advancing AI literacy and responsible adoption through evidence-informed programs and technical implementation guided by community needs.
AI Literacy
Helping people and organizations understand AI.
AIRI makes AI understandable through accessible learning grounded in everyday life. We help people explore how AI works and what it can do.
Our programs welcome learners with different backgrounds and levels of experience. Through guided activities and discussion, participants build the knowledge to ask informed questions and recognize how AI affects their lives.
What We Do
- Explain the basics: Help learners understand AI and recognize where they already encounter it.
- Provide hands-on learning: Use guided activities to explore AI tools and their applications.
- Develop understanding: Teach participants to question AI outputs and recognize errors, bias, and misleading content.
- Connect AI to everyday life: Explore its influence on work, learning, and access to information.
Responsible Adoption
Helping Canadians use AI responsibly, safely, and effectively.
AI adoption begins with understanding where it can help and what its use requires. AIRI supports individuals, businesses, and organizations—including non-profits—to make informed choices about AI and use it with confidence.
We help people assess their readiness, choose appropriate tools, and establish clear practices for their use. Our approach connects everyday needs with an understanding of AI’s capabilities, limitations, and risks.
What We Do
- Assess readiness: Identify relevant uses for AI and the skills, resources, and safeguards needed to support adoption.
- Guide tool selection: Help people evaluate AI tools against their needs, including accessibility, privacy, and cost.
- Establish responsible practices: Develop guidance for protecting information, checking AI outputs, and maintaining human oversight.
- Support everyday use: Help teams introduce AI into their work with clear expectations for when and how to use it.
- Build confidence: Deliver hands-on training that helps people recognize AI’s limitations and judge when its use is appropriate.
Technical Implementation
AIRI works with communities and organizations to understand their needs and build AI solutions that address them.
Our work begins with understanding the people who will use a solution and the setting in which it will operate. We assess where AI can provide value, then design and implement tools that fit existing workflows and available resources.
What We Do
- Custom AI solutions: Developing tools that address specific community and organizational needs.
- Workflow integration: Incorporating AI into everyday operations to reduce repetitive work and improve access to information.
- Inclusive design: Making solutions accessible to people with different abilities and levels of technical experience.
- Responsible implementation: Building privacy and accountability into how solutions are developed and used.