Summary
This report summarizes the second edition of the Shaping the Future of AI and Regulation workshop, held in Montréal in September 2025. Bringing together experts from Quebec, the UK, and France, the event explored national regulatory models, the technical hurdles of implementation, and emerging geopolitical dynamics in global AI governance. Discussions addressed among other things the EU AI Act, comparative regulatory approaches, digital sovereignty, ethical tensions, systemic risks, and the judiciary’s evolving relationship with AI. The need for interdisciplinary and comparative dialogue to guide future AI regulation and international coordination was highlighted.
Table of contents
Full program 2
Workshop Overview 10
First Session: Comparative AI Regulatory Approaches in Each Country 11
Lightning Talks: Latin American and South Korean Regulatory Approaches 18
Second Session: Exploring the Implementation Challenges in Regulations 23
Lightning Talks: Insights from a Judge and Two Lawyers 31
Third Session: Global AI Governance and Geopolitics 37
Conclusions – Next Generation Perspectives 45
Biographies of the Speakers 46
Acknowledgments 57
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Octobre 2025 Written by:
Gaëlle Foucault
Halima Bachir
Clare Mulrooney
Emma Kondrup
Antoine Congost, à partir des interventions des experts participant au séminaire
