Alberta modernizes legacy government IT with AI, targeting billions in savings

The Alberta government announced a large‑scale overhaul of its decades‑old public‑service technology using artificial‑intelligence tools from Anthropic and Google. AI agents built on Anthropic’s Claude models scanned roughly 466 million lines of code across 27 ministries in about 20 hours – a task that would have taken years manually. The province plans to replace 165 legacy systems with 16 new applications owned by the government, projecting a 95 percent cost reduction on an estimated $2 billion upgrade bill.

The AI initiative also boosts cybersecurity, with the new tools helping block more than 189 million attempted connections daily and intercepting fraud attempts on social programs each minute. To share its approach, Alberta has published 21 open‑source “Velocity White Papers” and built the Alberta AI Academy, launched in September 2025, to train public servants. Minister of Technology and Innovation Nate Glubish said the effort makes Alberta a leader in public‑service AI adoption in North America.