AI Law, Policy and Governance
How AI is regulated and governed in Canada and internationally: federal and provincial policy, the EU AI Act, privacy, human rights, intellectual property, liability, consumer protection, sector regulation, standards and organizational governance.
AI-440 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 52 min
Offered by HSM University · Artificial Intelligence
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Map the instruments, approaches, roles and principles of AI governance and build a risk-tiered AI inventory
- Explain national AI law and policy, government use of AI and algorithmic impact assessments, and the evolving federal and regional framework
- Classify AI uses under the EU AI Act, describe provider, deployer and GPAI obligations and timelines, and explain international frameworks
- Apply privacy principles and laws across the AI life cycle, assess re-identification risk and plan privacy impact assessments
- Identify and measure algorithmic discrimination, apply human rights and civil rights frameworks, and design meaningful oversight
- Analyse copyright in training and outputs, patents, trade secrets, personality rights and licences for AI
- Assess liability for AI harms under negligence, product liability, misrepresentation and contract, and estimate exposure
- Apply consumer protection law to AI claims and manipulative practices, and evaluate deepfake laws, provenance and detection
- Explain sector requirements in finance, health, transport and employment, and monitor models in regulated settings
- Use AI standards, management systems and the NIST AI RMF, and plan audits with appropriate evidence and sampling
- Design organizational AI governance: structures, policies, life cycle review, vendor due diligence, contracts and incident response
- Analyse frontier AI governance and export controls, and build a cross-jurisdictional AI compliance program
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 52 min total · final exam
- 1 The AI governance landscape 25 min · quiz
- 2 AI law and policy in Canada 24 min · quiz
- 3 The EU AI Act and international frameworks 26 min · quiz
- 4 Privacy and data protection for AI 25 min · quiz
- 5 Automated decisions, discrimination and human rights 24 min · quiz
- 6 Intellectual property: training data, outputs, patents and trade secrets 25 min · quiz
- 7 Liability for AI harms 24 min · quiz
- 8 Consumer protection, synthetic media and online harms 24 min · quiz
- 9 Sector regulation: finance, health, transport and employment 24 min · quiz
- 10 Standards, management systems and audits 24 min · quiz
- 11 Organizational AI governance: structures, policies, procurement and contracts 25 min · quiz
- 12 Frontier AI, global governance and building a compliance program 22 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How AI is regulated and governed in Canada and internationally: federal and provincial policy, the EU AI Act, privacy, human rights, intellectual property, liability, consumer protection, sector regulation, standards and organizational governance.
Part of the Science stream, typically taken in year 4.