Canada — ISED · Canada (federal, voluntary) · Voluntary code
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Active (Sep 2023) — the de facto federal generative-AI baseline pending legislation; ~50 signatories (Cohere, IBM, Telus, CIBC, Mila, Vector…).
For advanced generative systems, adopt the six outcomes: accountability, safety (pre-deployment risk assessment), fairness & equity (bias assessment), transparency (disclose and label AI-generated content), human oversight & monitoring, and validity & robustness.
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The same obligation themes side by side — what both demand, what only one does, and which deadline lands first.