AI initiative registry

Every initiative listed in the registry can be consulted here, without an account. Each record shows its progress, its milestones and the history of its decisions. Requests still under triage do not appear: they join the registry once reviewed.

Cognitive and Generative AI

AI that generates new content, simulates human creativity, or augments knowledge work.

What is “Cognitive and Generative AI”?

This category includes AI systems that simulate higher-order reasoning, learning, or creativity, often augmenting human intellectual or creative work. These systems can generate new content, synthesize knowledge, simulate environments, or support cognitive tasks like writing, analysis, or brainstorming.

Cognitive and Generative AI
Subcategory	Description	Examples
Generative AI (text, images, code)	Creating content based on inputs	Drafting reports, code generation, creating visuals
Knowledge management	Structuring and surfacing institutional knowledge	Semantic search, summarizing policy libraries
Simulation and digital twins	Creating virtual models of real-world systems	Marine ecosystem simulations, training scenarios

Key indicator: If the AI is producing new content, performing human-like reasoning, or generating knowledge artifacts, it belongs here.
Focus: Idea generation, content creation, simulation, complex summarization, or reasoning.

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AI initiative registry
ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
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
57	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Ideation	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
26	Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation	Ideation	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
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
21	CSAS Knowledge Base Creation	Ideation	This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purp...	—	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Johnston, Diane
18	Classification AI	Ideation	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
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
2	Change Management and AI	Ideation	We wish to leverage AI for the change management group. this will leverage copilot for now or more elevated tools, but it will, consolidate...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Tsang, Paul
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

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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
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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

Ideation 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

Ideation 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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CSAS Knowledge Base Creation
This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purpose of the initiative is to create a knowledge base of CSAS publications from the last 25 years. This knowledge base would allow anyone to leverage the AI Assistant to extract trends, data, and information in such a way as to plot new visualizations by unleashing the information held within the publication repository. This initiative has a Statement of Work with ISED and it is being scoped out for amount of work and cost. All indicators to date show that this is a very workable knowledge base development.

Ideation 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

Ideation 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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Change Management and AI
We wish to leverage AI for the change management group. this will leverage copilot for now or more elevated tools, 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.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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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