On April 21, the European Commission published the landmark
This bulletin summarizes the European Commission s Proposal
and compares it to Canada s current regulatory landscape,
including the federal and provincial governments recent
efforts to create more responsive laws governing AI.
What you need to know
The Proposal defines AI systems to include software that is
developed with one or more named techniques and which can, for a
given set of human-defined objectives, generate content,
predictions, recommendations or decisions.
The framework proposes a tiered risk-based approach aimed at
balancing regulation with encouragement of trustworthy innovation.
The Proposal s key obligations are grounded in data governance