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Canada Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making

Binding rules for automated decisions by the Government of Canada: a public Algorithmic Impact Assessment and tiered requirements for transparency, quality assurance and human oversight. One of the earliest operative AI rules anywhere, amended in 2023 to cover generative AI.

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Required actions

  • Complete and publish an Algorithmic Impact Assessment before production and when functionality changes - Meet the transparency, quality assurance, human-in-the-loop and recourse requirements for the assessed impact level (I to IV) - Peer review and monitoring for higher-impact systems; release source code where possible

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