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# Evan Solomon

Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation (as of 2026-09-16; source: https://betakit.com/yoshua-bengios-lawzero-receives-300-million-backing-from-canada-and-germany-to-pursue-safer-ai-ambitions/).

Canada's first AI minister; announced Canada's share of the LawZero grant (2026-09-16-lawzero-canada-germany-300m).

## Accounts

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Solomon

## In the news (1 event, newest first)

- 2026-09-16: [Canada and Germany commit about C$300M to Yoshua Bengio's LawZero for 'Scientist AI', dedicated compute and a Berlin office](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-lawzero-canada-germany-300m/), Policy & safety. It is one of the largest government grants to an AI-safety research group, and it backs a different technical bet from the frontier labs: a non-agentic "Scientist AI" meant to monitor and constrain other models.

Profile checked 2026-10-14.