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Webinar Wednesday – Governing Generative AI: From Permission to Competency to Measurement
Will Falk discusses his new CSA Public Policy Centre paper, “A Complement, Not a Substitute: Generative AI’s Role in Canadian Healthcare in 2026.”
The paper’s central argument is simple: the bigger risk now is moving too slowly. Clinicians are already using generative tools for documentation and information retrieval. Patients are using them to get explanations and navigate a system that often fails to do either. Pretending we can pause this adoption doesn’t make healthcare safer. It may lead to a shadow system.
Will examines where generative AI offers real leverage against familiar constraints, why the complement-versus-substitute distinction matters for clinical practice, what early Canadian implementations are actually showing, and what policymakers and regulators need to get right. The audience should expect a direct, evidence-based case for moving faster with appropriate safeguards not another cautious call for more study.
Read an excerpt from “A Complement, Not a Substitute: Generative AI’s Role in Canadian Healthcare in 2026” at: https://www.canhealth.com/2026/02/26/governing-generative-ai-from-permission-to-competency-to-measurement/
