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AI initiative registry
ID	AI Initiative	Current Status	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
1	M365 Copilot Pilot	Pilot	We are running the Copilot Licensed pilot to see the use of Copilot as an elevated assistant. We are looking into how productive it can help...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Tremblay, Julien
2	Change Management and AI	Idea	We wish to leverage AI for the change management group. this will leverage copilot for now or more elevated toolls, but it will, consolidate...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Tsang, Paul
5	ITSD knowledge content improvement	Pilot	The DFO IT Service Desk is leveraging generative AI (usually Copilot) to enhance its knowledge base articles and Assyst FAQs, which is knowl...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI	Miousse, Gaétan
18	Classification AI	Idea	Classification AI (Mark Jarvis) to help with the creation of job descriptions/tasks and analyze job descriptions to help with SoMCs	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Gardner, Leigh
22	AI Model for Administrative Support	Pilot	Pilot with select staff using MS Copilot for briefing material preparation, data analysis, writing, and translation. Exploring broader acces...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bédard, Mathieu
26	Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation	Idea	Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metad...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bussieres, Martin
42	Classification engineered prompts	Pilot	Our classification group is testing premade prompts to help with job description writing and analysis. ADDED FROM ID 48: We are exploring...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Gardner, Leigh
48	Classification AI	Idea	We are exploring using AI to help with job description writing and editing tasks, and initial tests using copilot have been helpful. It woul...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Gardner, Leigh
57	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Idea	Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
63	Factoid Finder Tool	Pilot	The Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Language Models are used to implem...	—	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Caron, Chantelle
71	News topic detection tool	Idea	Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as w...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bird, Tom
77	Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system	Idea	Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. Th...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Dunphy, Michael
78	Okanagan sockeye life cycle model	Pilot	Using LLM (ChatGPT) to support the development of a statistical lifecycle model for Okanagan sockeye. LLMs are not developing the models but...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Thompson, Patrick
79	Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates	Idea	This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Thompson, Patrick
80	Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)	Pilot	Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
82	Conservation Benefits	Idea	This AI initiative aims to improve access to CSAS documents by developing an AI-powered interface that allows users to quickly search and ex...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Newman, Candace
84	Daily Use	Pilot	Dashboard Development, Used the standalone M365 version of Copilot to assist with coding.	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Newman, Candace
85	Daily Use	Pilot	Bing CoPilot, ChatGPT-4 Emails, documents, speaking points, ideas	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Newman, Candace
101	Creating space-time continuous surface chlorophyll fields for northwest Atlantic using neural network methods	Pilot	Neural network methods are applied to fill the space-time gaps in satellite remote sensing data of surface chlorophyll for the Northwest Atl...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
102	Past, Present and Future Oceanographic Conditions in Canada's MPAs and Marine OECMs (Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures)	Pilot	Downscaling climate models using neural networks for conservation areas. Neural networks allow us to represent coarse resolution climate pro...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
114	InsightBridge: Executive CSAS Summaries	Pilot	Uses AI to convert complex, technical CSAS reports into concise, plain-language summaries tailored for executive decision-makers. Enhances...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
115	PublicLens: Science in Plain Language	Pilot	Leverages AI to transform highly technical scientific and documents into accessible, plain-language summaries for the Canadian public. Foste...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
123	Fish-Habitat Associations	Pilot	Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equival...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
138	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Pilot	Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
144	Factoid Finder Tool	Pilot	This completed project used the Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Langua...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda

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M365 Copilot Pilot
We are running the Copilot Licensed pilot to see the use of Copilot as an elevated assistant. We are looking into how productive it can help people perform their work, reduce administratrive tasking We have 300 licenses, but we also have all DFO users available for a smaller version of Copilot that could be leveraged.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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Change Management and AI
We wish to leverage AI for the change management group. this will leverage copilot for now or more elevated toolls, but it will, consolidate the meeting notes, and leverage a sharepoint site to gather related information. we would also like it to be able to review the impact and provide an unofficial assessement We would only need readyness and support to look into it.

Idea Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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ITSD knowledge content improvement
The DFO IT Service Desk is leveraging generative AI (usually Copilot) to enhance its knowledge base articles and Assyst FAQs, which is knowledge intended for clients. This includes creating new knowledge articles, validating and improving existing content, translating materials, and tailoring messaging to different audiences.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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Classification AI
Classification AI (Mark Jarvis) to help with the creation of job descriptions/tasks and analyze job descriptions to help with SoMCs

Idea Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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AI Model for Administrative Support
Pilot with select staff using MS Copilot for briefing material preparation, data analysis, writing, and translation. Exploring broader access for process automation. Action plan for this initiative: 1. Governance: Assign project lead, document user access. Regular check-ins with IT and management. 2. Guardrails: Restrict to trained users, apply GC data/privacy standards, conduct ethical reviews and audits. 3. Work pr

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
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Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation
Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metadata. Technologie already exists, need to be security reviewed, integrated and configured. Challenge, web infrastructure team capacity

Idea Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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Classification engineered prompts
Our classification group is testing premade prompts to help with job description writing and analysis. ADDED FROM ID 48: We are exploring using AI to help with job description writing and editing tasks, and initial tests using copilot have been helpful. It would be nice to have a tool that could write and edit job descriptions, help analyse current job descriptions and help with SoMCs, etc… This wouldn’t need protected data for training, but we would need to upload classification documents needed for this type of work.

Pilot Human Resources and Corporate Services Cognitive and Generative AI
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Classification AI
We are exploring using AI to help with job description writing and editing tasks, and initial tests using copilot have been helpful. It would be nice to have a tool that could write and edit job descriptions, help analyse current job descriptions and help with SoMCs, etc… This wouldn’t need protected data for training, but we would need to upload classification documents needed for this type of work.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Cognitive and Generative AI
57
CSAS Knowledge Graph
Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relationships between researches

Idea Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
63
Factoid Finder Tool
The Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Language Models are used to implement semantic search techniques, allowing users to search the library for relevant passages within the PDFs. Small Language Model and Text Embedder: MS Marco Distilbert Dot-v5 Cross-encoder: MS Marco MiniLM-L6-v2

Pilot Cognitive and Generative AI
71
News topic detection tool
Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as well as what knowledge DFO has available to address those topics. Large Language Models

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
77
Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system
Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. The inference is expected to be both faster and computationally cheaper than existing solutions. The training process would use existing model output from multi-year hindcasts. Success with a fixed location would graduate to developing a relocatable emulator TBD; could be U-Net or CNN, or based on GraphCast

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
78
Okanagan sockeye life cycle model
Using LLM (ChatGPT) to support the development of a statistical lifecycle model for Okanagan sockeye. LLMs are not developing the models but are used to brainstorm modelling approaches, debug code, and confirm that written model descriptions in manuscripts are accurate and clear. AI is not being tasked with developing these models. Large Language Models

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
79
Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates
This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climate variables across the salmon life cycle and make projections for how stocks will respond to climate change scenarios. This modelling approach is intended to be sufficiently flexible to incorporate variability in data quality. Large language models are being used to brainstorm modelling approaches and debug code. AI is not being tasked with developing these models. Large Language Models

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
80
Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)
Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and various others that are integrated directly into the applications already currently being used. Large Language Models

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
82
Conservation Benefits
This AI initiative aims to improve access to CSAS documents by developing an AI-powered interface that allows users to quickly search and extract relevant information. With CSAS documents as the backend, the tool will help identify and surface conservation benefit language for faster, more targeted use. IT led by ISED

Idea Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
84
Daily Use
Dashboard Development, Used the standalone M365 version of Copilot to assist with coding.

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
85
Daily Use
Bing CoPilot, ChatGPT-4 Emails, documents, speaking points, ideas

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
101
Creating space-time continuous surface chlorophyll fields for northwest Atlantic using neural network methods
Neural network methods are applied to fill the space-time gaps in satellite remote sensing data of surface chlorophyll for the Northwest Atlantic. The generated dataset will be validated and analyzed.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
102
Past, Present and Future Oceanographic Conditions in Canada's MPAs and Marine OECMs (Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures)
Downscaling climate models using neural networks for conservation areas. Neural networks allow us to represent coarse resolution climate projections at a much higher spatial resolution across six eastern MPAs.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
114
InsightBridge: Executive CSAS Summaries
Uses AI to convert complex, technical CSAS reports into concise, plain-language summaries tailored for executive decision-makers. Enhances leadership understanding and accelerates informed decision-making by providing easily digestible insights. Ensures executives can quickly grasp critical information without sifting through dense documentation.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
115
PublicLens: Science in Plain Language
Leverages AI to transform highly technical scientific and documents into accessible, plain-language summaries for the Canadian public. Fosters transparency and builds public trust by making scientific and government information easily understandable. Promotes civic engagement by breaking down barriers between experts and everyday Canadians.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
123
Fish-Habitat Associations
Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equivalency models used in regulatory decisions. Possible partnership with McMaster University.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
138
CSAS Knowledge Graph
Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relationships between researches

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
144
Factoid Finder Tool
This completed project used the Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Language Models are used to implement semantic search techniques, allowing users to search the library for relevant passages within the PDFs.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI