Brian Peters, head of North American government affairs at Anthropic, says the project provides a documented model for addressing technical debt at scale. “What Alberta has built represents what the government has needed for a long time: a practical, documented approach to addressing the technical debt and security risks accumulated in decades of legacy code,” Peters says.
According to a previous report, business leaders predict that in the next two to three years, AI agents will lead project management for teams (39%) or work collaboratively with humans to complete tasks (31%).
State reports rapid technology review
The Ministry of Technology and Innovation said its AI staff reviewed more than 466 million lines of the agency’s decades-old computer code in about 20 hours, a task that would otherwise have taken years. The state says this initiative makes it a leader in public service AI adoption in North America.
Alberta has also published 21 technical documents called Velocity White Papers outlining its methodology to help other governments follow the same approach, and are available for free at thevelocitywhitepapers.com.
“Alberta has spent decades building technology that works for government. Now, we’re rebuilding it to work better for Albertans, faster and at a much lower cost,” said Nate Grubish, Minister of Technology and Innovation. “The tools our team has built are world-class, and we’re sharing them openly because every government suffers from the same aging systems as we do. Alberta isn’t waiting around to solve this problem.”
