The share of Canadian organizations that reported using AI to create goods and services in the past 12 months has doubled from 6.1 per cent in May 2024 to 12.2 per cent in May 2025, according to Statistics Canada’s Canadian Survey of Business Conditions.
The 2025 survey of 21,357 Canadian businesses and non-profits also shows AI adoption is more likely to reduce rather than increase staffing levels, particularly in the health-care and social assistance fields.
AI at work – Who’s the boss
The chief executive officer of Anthropic – one of OpenAI’s main rivals – doesn’t feel great about all the jobs their chatbots will gobble up. In an interview last month with Axios, Dario Amodei said tech leaders and politicians need to stop “sugar-coating” the economic upheaval ahead. He’s even prepared to put a number on the carnage: Generative AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years.
