What Québec's New AI Guidelines Mean For Canadian Businesses

The Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI)—Québec's privacy regulator—has released a set of guidelines outlining recommendations on the use of AI in the workplace, which offer "good guidance" to employers who wish to update their best practices, says partner Julie Himo in an interview with HR Reporter.

Though the new guidelines are not binding law, they provide insight into what could soon become standard AI and privacy regulation across Canada.

"It gives us a sense of where the CAI is heading in terms of regulatory positioning, and it'll help employers—who are all considering what AI tools they want to use in their day to day—to identify where the issues are, what they would be if they decided to use an AI tool and what risks they could be running by using these tools," Julie says.