Visa Issues Darken Canada's Moment in AI Spotlight
- Researchers invited to Montreal event couldn’t get permits
- ‘It’s Africans living everywhere that are getting denied’
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A number of researchers due to attend a prestigious conference on artificial intelligence in Canada this week have been unable to obtain visas in time, leading some executives to question the government’s stated goal of becoming a world-leading destination for academics and companies developing the technology.
Complaints from prominent AI researchers and media reports prompted the Canadian government to approve some African researchers whose applications had been held up.