How Canada's draft chatbot law stacks up on global scene
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-06-12 07:05
PARIS: Canada's proposed law requiring chatbot providers to protect users from "harmful" content is the latest step by global governments to regulate the sector. The draft legislation introduced on Wednesday targets issues like chatbots encouraging suicide or self-harm, as well as AIs deceptively claiming to be human or expert in complex fields such as medicine and law. Chatbots will also be subject to rules from a new Digital Safety Commission. "I think it's the first online harms regime to add chatbots to the scope," said Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications at Montreal's McGill University. "We're pretty late to this policy space in Canada, so the core of the bill is able to learn from what a lot of other countries have tried," he added. Here is how Canada's proposed rules stack up against other jurisdictions: Britain The British government said in ...
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