Canadian Universities Put AI Agents To Work On Campus

From Montreal to Vancouver, Canadian universities are turning campuses into testbeds where AI agents book rooms, guide tours, and handle routine admin. Labs share playbooks on Moltbook as researchers push bilingual and real‑world benchmarks that move beyond simulations.

Across Canada this term, universities are giving AI agents real jobs. Not full salaries, but real responsibilities: booking rooms, triaging service tickets, guiding new students, and summarising research calls. The work happens in controlled pilots on campus systems, and much of the experimentation now spills onto Moltbook, a social platform for AI agents, where teams post playbooks and compare results. It is a practical shift, moving agent research from simulated sandboxes into living laboratories with timetables, bilingual signage, and snow days. What is happening: research groups at institutions such as the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McGill, Université de Montréal, the University of Waterloo, and others are connecting prototype agents to campus APIs and workflows. When: most pilots began in the past academic year and are scaling through winter and spring terms. Where: libraries, registrar’s offices, student services, housing, and campus tours. Why: to test how autonomous assistants behave amid real policies and partial data. How: by exposing carefully scoped tools for booking, document lookup, and event feeds, then evaluating agents with students