A field guide by Mohit Rajhans

AI,
Now What?

AI is here. The next decisions are ours.

A practical framework for what comes after AI adoption — what we need to know, what we should control, what needs to change, what we must protect, and what we actually gain.

From capability to consequence.

AI, Now What?: Adoption to Alignment by Mohit Rajhans book cover

The Dreadlines → Your next decision

AI at home. At school. At work.

Build your family AI plan, bring a parent conversation to your school, or plan your team’s 2027 reality check.

Canada’s AI accountability timeline 2023–2026

As of

Position shiftedThe Logic ↗

Voluntary code for generative AI

Formal regulation never arrived. The code is now the system: 46 firms are listed, and Solomon says it stays.

DeliveredCanada.ca ↗

Canadian AI Safety Institute launched

The institute exists and got $50M in the 2026 strategy. Canada and the UK renewed their institute partnership on Oct 13, 2026.

Slipped or failedbillc27.ca explainer ↗

AIDA dies with Bill C-27

The bill died on the order paper when Parliament was prorogued. It has no successor.

DeliveredTorontoToday ↗

Evan Solomon named first AI minister

Portfolio created and in place; Solomon also leads the southern Ontario development agency.

Position shiftedThe Logic ↗

AIDA “off the table”; “light, tight, right”

Direction changed from regulating AI systems to adoption plus targeted harms bills. Reported replacement dates were not met for AI-specific law.

Slipped or failedBetaKit ↗

30-day task force sprint; strategy by end of 2025 or January

The strategy launched June 4, 2026, roughly five months after the latest date given.

In progressThe Runner (student paper) ↗

Budget 2025: sovereign public AI infrastructure

Funding announced. Compute capacity and access terms are still to be delivered.

In progressCHEK / Canadian Press ↗

Online harms and privacy bills with deepfake protections

Both were tabled by mid-June 2026. Neither is law yet.

In progressBetaKit ↗

OpenAI summoned after Tumbler Ridge

Bill C-34, the Digital Safety Act, would put a duty to act responsibly on AI chatbot companies. It is tabled, not law. Altman apologized to the community on Apr 24, and a Canadian AI Safety Institute review of OpenAI was still open in late September.

DeliveredCanada.ca ↗

$8.5M for 40 Atlantic AI adoption projects

Announced with named quantity: 40 projects.

In progressThe Logic ↗

Elections Act amendments to ban election deepfakes

Tabled; listed by The Logic among four AI-related bills. Not yet law.

DeliveredPMO ↗

AI for All national strategy published

Published. Critics said it had few measures to head off harms, and some pieces are still proposals. The targets are as reported in a September 2026 Canadian Science Policy Centre editorial.

In progressThe Logic ↗

Privacy bill tabled

Tabled. Experts caution many measures will not be enforced for years.

DeliveredBNN Bloomberg / CP ↗

Up to $300M with Germany for Bengio’s LawZero

Funding announced. Delivery milestones were not published in the coverage reviewed.

Not yet launchedCP24 / CP ↗

“Technology stability board” and UN frontier AI call

The board has not been launched or announced.

In progressCTV News ↗

Tumbler Ridge: Ottawa says OpenAI safeguards still under review

Unclear whether Carney meant Bill C-34 or separate legislation. The Canadian AI Safety Institute review of OpenAI is still open.

DeliveredThe Logic ↗

National AI advisory council named

Members named, per The Logic.

DeliveredCTV News ↗

Regional AI Initiative grows by $500M to $700M

Announced. Uptake and results are still to come.

DeliveredCanada.ca ↗

Canada and UK renew AI security partnership

Signed in London.

The work is moving

Canada’s AI Jobs Radar

AI work is spreading beyond the technical core. Track the roles building the systems, operating them, changing organizations and keeping them accountable.

Scanning: BUILD

The people building AI systems, infrastructure and products.

Openings change quickly. Live cards link to the employer. Role signals show job families worth tracking across the Canadian market.

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The new starting point

THE QUESTION HAS CHANGED.

THEN:

What can AI do?

THEN:

How do we use it?

NOW:

What happens when we do?

AI, Now What? is about the decisions that come after access and adoption.

KNOW

Do we understand what is happening?

CONTROL

What are we willing to let AI do?

CHANGE

What should people and organizations do differently?

PROTECT

What must remain safe, trusted and human?

GAIN

Are we actually better off?

ADOPTION ISN'T THE OUTCOME. GAIN IS.

A new operating question

AI NEEDS A HEALTH + SAFETY LAYER

We cannot put the entire burden of AI safety on the person using it. As AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, we need to think differently about safety, authority and accountability.

“AI has moved from an information problem to an authority problem.”

For public AI, that means protections appropriate to age, vulnerability, capability and consequence.

For organizations, the question becomes not only what employees are allowed to do with AI, but what AI is authorized to do inside the organization.

01

ACCESS

What information and systems can AI reach?

02

AUTHORITY

What is it permitted to decide?

03

ACTION

What can it execute without human approval?

04

AUDIT

Can we reconstruct what happened?

05

ACCOUNTABILITY

Who owns the outcome?

We can't educate our way out of every AI risk.

AI literacy teaches people how to operate around the machine.

AI safety determines how the machine is allowed to operate around us.

AI, NOW WHAT? IN THE REAL WORLD

“Tech expert says AI needs safety overhaul after rogue AI swarms hack Hugging Face”

After autonomous AI agents reportedly bypassed safeguards and accessed an external system, Mohit Rajhans called for a “massive health and safety overhaul” for AI, stronger human accountability and a broader approach to governance.

Read the CHCH coverage ↗

Participation is not protection

AI FOR ALL. NOW WHAT?

Access matters. Literacy matters. Participation matters. But bringing AI to everyone also requires us to ask what protections, controls and choices everyone should have.

ACCESS FOR ALL.LITERACY FOR ALL.AGENCY FOR ALL.SAFETY FOR ALL.ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ALL.

FOR PEOPLE

Literacy + Agency + Safety

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Knowledge + Permissions + Accountability

FOR CANADA

Access + Capability + Public Trust

AI for All answers WHO.
AI, Now What? asks WHAT NEXT.

AUTHORAI, Now What?: Adoption to Alignment

NATIONAL MEDIA CONTRIBUTORClear perspective for the public conversation

100+ INTERVIEWSTesting the question in real time

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Why are you here?

You have a next question. Choose it and we will point you to the right place.

Canada Training Brain Trust

Find the support.
Build the capability.

Government-backed learning, technology company resources and the organizations helping Canadians put AI skills to work.

100 interviews later

The question grew up.

01

Access was not adoption.

Tools arrived quickly. Meaningful change required a harder look at how work gets done.

02

Context became the advantage.

Better answers came from organizational knowledge, judgment, and a clear view of the work.

03

AI became a leadership decision.

Workforce, governance, communications, and business priorities now sit inside the AI conversation.

04

AI became a health, safety and control question.

As AI moves from generating answers to taking actions, literacy alone isn't enough. Public systems need safeguards. Organizations need permissions, oversight and accountability.

Select clips

Three headline-ready moments, plus the context around them.

The audio hooks are built for quick media use. The video cuts add the wider frame: AI agents are becoming operational, while Canada is still sorting adoption, jobs, strategy, and trust.

Mohit Rajhans on CHCH Morning Live
CHCH Morning Live

Are we ready for the future of AI in Canada?

AI strategist and author Mohit Rajhans explains where Canada is on AI adoption, workplace readiness, privacy, jobs, data centres, and control.

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0130 sec

Headline hook

AI Agents Are Here. The Guardrails Are Not.

A tight explainer on AI agents, loss of control, and why convenience tools now carry higher-stakes security questions.

0230 sec

Headline hook

The AI Kill Switch Problem

A public-facing hook on AI content spreading faster than most people, businesses, and institutions can manage or mitigate.

0330 sec

Headline hook

Do Not Repeat the Social Media Mistake

The strongest leadership moment: Canada cannot let AI scale first and only study the consequences later.

Context cuts

When the audience needs the setup before the headline.

These vertical clips give producers, hosts, and teams a fast bridge from the public question to the leadership decision underneath it.

011:18

Automation context

AI agents are now completing tasks for you.

Use this cut when the audience needs the bigger setup: AI is moving from answers to action, so permissions, oversight, and accountability matter before teams hand over real work.

021:07

Canada context

Canada’s AI adoption is only 20%.

A quick frame for the national conversation: strategy, jobs, readiness, and public trust have to move together if Canada wants AI adoption to become real capability.

Mohit Rajhans in the media · CBC · CTV · CHCH · Global · Breakfast Television

AI in the news, with context you can use.

Mohit brings practical context to the AI stories shaping organizations, policy, work, and everyday life.

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BRING “AI, NOW WHAT?” INTO THE ROOM

Bring the question into the room where the next decision gets made.

LEADERSHIP
What should we adopt, control and measure?
WORKFORCE
What changes about how people actually work?
EDUCATION
What should students, educators and families understand?
PUBLIC CONVERSATION
What should Canadians know about what is changing?

KEYNOTE · LEADERSHIP BRIEFING · WORKSHOP · MEDIA

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About Mohit Rajhans

A trusted voice for the part after the headline.

Mohit Rajhans is an author, national media contributor, speaker, and founder of Think Start Inc. His work connects technology to the people who must live with its consequences.

The book started the question. The world keeps changing the answer. AI, Now What? has evolved into an ongoing platform for understanding AI adoption, literacy, safety, work, governance and human impact.

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