About a year after the European Union became the first entity to propose regulations governing the use of artificial intelligence, Canada is following in its footsteps by proposing its own first-ever private sector regulation of AI.

Similarities between the two regulations reveal the influence, and the pressure, that the EU's own AI approach is having on other jurisdictions looking to rein in an industry that had been left unchecked.

This June, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-27. If passed, the bill would not only reform federal private-sector privacy law but also regulate artificial intelligence under a new Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA).