Canadians ahead of Americans in AI adoption: survey

Canadians are ahead of Americans in adopting artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new study.

Alexi, an AI company in the law sector, released the results of a survey conducted in February. The survey revealed that more than half of people predict AI will be less biased than humans and that Canadians are more open to AI than Americans.

The survey, conducted by market research company Talker Research, was carried out from Feb. 20 to Feb. 26, 2025. Overall, Talker Research interviewed 2,000 participants, divided between 1,000 from the U.S. and 1,000 from Canada.

The organization found that Canadians are more likely to support AI in schools and AI taking over mundane tasks. They believe AI will become less biased than humans and could replace tasks performed by humans in terms of hiring and law. However, the stats in favour of law are quite low (12 per cent support AI making legal decisions).

Over half of the respondents (52 per cent) believe that AI literacy should be taught in schools by 2026, and the belief is firm in Canada. 60 per cent of the Canadian respondents backed the idea, compared to 45 per cent of the American respondents.

Out of the Canadian provinces, Alberta, Quebec, and British Columbia (all at 64 per cent) had the highest levels of support, while New York and Massachusetts had the highest levels of support south of the border, at 53 and 46 per cent, respectively.

Canadians are also farther ahead in terms of personal adoption of AI; more than half of Canadians (56 per cent) are likely to embrace AI in their everyday lives, while in the U.S., it accounts for just less than half (49 per cent).

This is especially prominent in the workplace; almost half of all respondents (44 per cent) are hopeful that AI will take over what Alexi describes as “monotonous tasks,” allowing more time for meaningful work.

Provinces in Western Canada, like Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta, were the most in favour of AI replacing repetitive tasks, with more than 55 per cent of respondents expressing this opinion.