The EU AI Act will soon be in force. However, we should not ignore developments elsewhere. Moderating a session on AI and search for regulatory inter-operability, Bruno Bioni, Founder and Director of Data Privacy Brazil, said that apart from the EU AI Act, there is an advanced draft in Brazil, and a law proposal in Canada.

Alessandro Mantelero, Associate Professor of Private Law and Law & Technology from Polytechnic University of Turin spoke about Human Rights Impact Assessments. He has conducted a comparative analysis which reveals that the EU and Brazil approach have differences: only the European Parliament in the EU stressed the importance of a human rights impact assessment. While Brazil’s Bill requires this assessment for all systems, in the EU it is just for specific sectors such as credit scoring or insurance. The EU focuses more on product safety, standards etc, he said. Brazil’s approach is much better. Brazil does not copy the EU; the EU needs to look not just at US but learn more from Latin America, he said.