Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25

I had the pleasure to speak at the McCarthy Tetrault AI Summit along with my colleague Mike Scherman. The AI summit was attended by over 1,000 McCarthy Clients eager to hear about AI legal and regulation issues.

Mike and I spoke on the topic of Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25. We stressed the importance of including present and future AI regulatory issues in the tech contracting process.

Our slides can be accessed below.…

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AIDA Companion Document: overview and questions

ISED released a document purporting to explain the purposes and scope of AIDA and how the regulations will be rolled out. The long expected document, The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA): Companion Document was released in anticipation of debates about AIDA in Parliament. The Companion Document is meant to provide assurances about AIDA, to quell the considerable unease among MPs and members of the public that AIDI is nothing but a shell of a bill with no details of what AI systems it will apply to and how it will regulate them. …

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AIDA - Regulation of AI systems in Canada

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AIDA’s regulation of AI in Canada: questions, criticisms and recommendations

1. Background and Overview

Canada is planning to enact Bill C‑27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act (“DIA”) to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (PIDTA), and Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA). In prior blog posts, I addressed some of the more important problems with the CPPA. This post focuses on questions, criticisms, and recommendations about AIDA, the government’s draft law to regulate AI systems in Canada.

AI systems are the new electricity.…

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1. Background and Overview