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Submit a Report

CAIM accepts submissions from anyone — individuals, organizations, journalists, researchers, or public servants. If you are aware of an AI-related incident or hazard with a Canada nexus, your report can help build the evidence base for prevention and accountability.

Have a link to credible public reporting? Submit it in under a minute. CAIM's editorial team will review it for scope and build the record.

News article, official document, court filing, or vendor disclosure

If you have detailed information — timeline, organizations involved, impact observed, AI system context — a structured submission helps CAIM produce a higher-quality record faster.

For sensitive cases requiring source protection, redaction, or coordinated disclosure. CAIM will:

  • Not publish identifying details without careful review
  • Apply heightened privacy safeguards
  • Follow coordinated disclosure norms for security-sensitive information
  • Protect your identity as a reporter
Only used to follow up on your submission. Never published or shared.

What happens after you submit

  1. Acknowledgment: you receive confirmation that your submission was received.
  2. Triage: the editorial team assesses scope (material AI involvement + Canada nexus), classifies the report as incident or hazard, and checks for de-duplication against existing records.
  3. Documentation: if the report is in scope, the team produces a factual record — narrative, sources, taxonomy tags, mitigation note — following CAIM's editorial standards.
  4. Review: a verification editor and safety reviewer assess the record before publication.
  5. Publication: the record goes live with a verification status, sources, and version number. You are not identified as the reporter unless you choose to be.

Not every submission results in a published record. Some reports may be out of scope, insufficiently sourced for any verification status, or duplicative of an existing record. CAIM aims to be transparent about why reports are not published when reporters request feedback.

What CAIM is not

Submitting to CAIM is not the same as:

  • Reporting to law enforcement: if you believe a crime has been committed, contact police or the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
  • Filing a privacy complaint: if your personal data was mishandled, contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or your provincial privacy commissioner.
  • Reporting a cybersecurity incident: if you are dealing with an active cyber threat, contact the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
  • Notifying a regulator: sector-specific regulators (financial, health, telecommunications) have their own reporting obligations.

Where appropriate, CAIM may recommend that reporters also use these existing channels. CAIM complements — but does not replace — formal reporting and regulatory processes.

Reporter protections

CAIM does not publish the identity of reporters without explicit consent. Confidential submissions receive additional safeguards. CAIM does not share reporter information with organizations named in records, with law enforcement, or with any third party, except where required by law.

If you have concerns about submitting, contact CAIM before filing a report to discuss how your information would be handled.