Growth vs Guardrails: BC's Framework for Steering AI

We built BC + AI for exactly this moment.

Ottawa created a Minister of Artificial Intelligence and just launched a national task force to shape the country’s next AI strategy. The conversation is happening right now about who gets compute, who sets the rules, and whose future this technology will serve.

Our new feature, Growth vs Guardrails, is already making the rounds in those rooms. The message is simple: if Ottawa’s foot is on the gas, BC is the steering wheel and the brakes. We can model a clean, ethical, community-led path that keeps power with people and place

This is the time to show up together. Not as scattered voices, but as a connected movement with purpose, vision, and political gravity.

Over the past few months, almost 100 of us have joined as the new BC + AI Ecosystem Association non-profit as Founding Members. Builders. Artists. Researchers. Investors. Educators. Policymakers. People who believe that tech should serve communities, not the other way around.

Now we’re opening the door wider. Join and you’ll be part of the core group that built this from the ground up. Your membership is declaration that British Columbia deserves to shape its own AI future with ethics, creativity, and care.

If you’ve been watching from the sidelines, this is the time to lean in.
We don’t do panels. We do portals. And this is the biggest one we’ve opened yet.

See you inside,

Kris Krüg
Executive Director
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
[email protected] | bc-ai.ca