The Canadian Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and the EU AI Act: Will Sanity Prevail as they more closely align? – Part 2 — Changes to both Acts bring them closer together... but not too close

Abstract Part 1 of this paper (Beardwood, CRi 2024, 97) provided an update on the progress of AIDA and the EU AI Act (I), outlined a summary roadmap of the base similarities and differences between the two items of legislation (II), reviewed the objectives of AIDA in contrast to the EU AI Act (III), compared their respective jurisdictional scope (IV), reviewed their respective definitions of AI systems (V), outlined new definitions/concepts which have been introduced into the legislation (VI), outlined the extent to which there are exclusions for the public sector (VII) and for research (VIII), and provided an overview of their respective risk-based approaches (IX). This Part 2 compares in detail the obligations for High-Impact Systems and General-Purpose Systems (AIDA) (X), and for High-Risk AI Systems and General-Purpose AI Systems (EU AI Act) (XI), and finally reviews the penalties and offences for noncompliance imposed by AIDA and EU AI Act (XII) before concluding (XIII).