Key Features And Implications Of ISED's Sweeping Amendments To The Proposed Legislative Scheme To Regulate Artificial Intelligence Systems

Overview

The original text of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) left much of the scope and substance of the privacy legislative scheme to be determined in the not-yet-drafted regulations, which made it difficult to assess its efficacy. However, in November 2023, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (ISED) introduced sweeping amendments to AIDA which represented a wholesale change to the initial statutory framework. For the December 2023 AccessPrivacy call, three experts joined AccessPrivacy lead and Osler partner Adam Kardash to discuss the implications of these amendments.

In the discussion, Dr. Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, and Michael Fekete and Sam Ip, both partners in Osler's Technology Group, unpacked the key features of the proposed changes to AIDA as well as the impact they'll have on the regulation of AI in Canada.