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