Canada encouraged to adopt its own ‘moonshot’ science research program
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“There are … areas where we need scientists to be involved to solve socially important problems,” said Yoshua Bengio, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence experts and executive director of the“So new technologies for fighting climate change or to deal with pandemics and infectious diseases or antimicrobial resistance are all areas where there is not enough research being done.
“That was a moonshot,” Bernstein said. “And again, another great example where money and patient investing and prior science, again funded by public funds, led to a so-called overnight success of these RNA vaccines. It wasn’t an overnight success. It was prior investments by both the federal government here in Canada actually and in the U.S. of decades of research that led to that overnight success.
Both Bernstein and Bengio provided advice to the Commons committee on how research choices for a Canadian moonshot program would be made, as well as the need for transparency and a commitment to “open science” —the idea that any advancements achieved in any program would be widely distributed to industry and academia.
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