Artificial Intelligence: Law Over Borders Comparative Guide 2024 Now Available
To help lawyers and businesses leaders safely and effectively integrate AI into their operations, several of McCarthy Tétrault’s leading lawyers in this space have co-authored the Canadian chapter in Artificial Intelligence: Law Over Borders Comparative Guide 2024.
Now in its second edition, this comprehensive and up-to-date comparative guide on AI regulation delivers valuable insights from global AI specialists into the business and legal aspects of AI, focusing on the most critical jurisdictions where the technology is being developed and deployed. It provides clear and pragmatic guidance on emerging AI laws in a host of countries, including the European Union, China, the United States and Canada and explores how national AI laws and regulations are likely to develop in the future.
Read an excerpt of the Canadian chapter below and access the full guide at The Global Legal Post.
Introduction
Canada was the first country in the world to adopt a national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. According to Stanford University’s most recently published Global AI Vibrancy Tool, Canada ranked fifth of 29 countries, and third among G7 nations, in AI research, development and economy. Government support for the AI sector has been strong and consistent, as seen with the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and Canada’s Global Innovation Clusters program, both launched in 2017, as with the government’s recent decision to invest CAD 2.4 billion to increase Canada’s AI computing capacity. Two of the three “godfathers” of modern AI research, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, are Canadian. AI research in the academic sphere is concentrated at three National AI Institutes: Amii (Edmonton), Mila (Montréal), and the Vector Institute (Toronto). Private sector AI investment is concentrated in vibrant ecosystems based in Toronto and Montréal. According to Deloitte’s report “Impact and opportunities: Canada’s AI ecosystem — 2023”, Canada’s cohort of AI talent rose an average of 38% annually in each of the preceding five years, outpacing the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Sweden, while Canada ranked third among G7 countries in per capita venture capital (VC) investment in AI, trailing only the United States and United Kingdom.
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