ABSTRACT
When ChatGPT burst into public awareness in the fall of 2022, it drew attention and gave salience to a debate about the legal approach toward the current AI wave that had been going on for many years already in specialist circles. Current calls, in the media, for intervention by public authorities come at the very time when the specialist debate is moving from a prolonged phase of conceptual examination toward concrete legislative action. That action is spearheaded by the EU, where a proposal for an “AI Act” 1 is now making its way through the EU legislative process and is expected to be enacted in the course of 2023 (European Union, 2022d). Other jurisdictions, including Canada, are following.
