About
Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2023
Catherine Régis is a specialist in health law and policy, global health law and innovation law. Most of her work explores how to best regulate AI at the national and international levels. She is especially interested in guiding the development of norms for the health care sector, to ensure that AI is accessible and safe for patients and health care professionals. Régis is also interested in the development of Human Rights Impact Assessments to guarantee that the human rights perspective is taken into account during the entire AI life cycle. As a member of the Responsible AI Working Group of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and the UNESCO Technical Committee on AI and the Rule of Law, she is also involved in applied AI projects that promote fairness, human rights, diversity and inclusion at a global scale. She participated in the elaboration of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI and is the Director of Social Innovation and International Policy at IVADO, a Canadian consortium of research, training and knowledge transfer in AI.
Awards
- Co-Chair of the Working Group on Responsible AI, Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) (2022-2024)
- Selected Fellow for the Science Diplomacy training program, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) (2022)
- Recipient of a Canada Research Chair, Government of Canada, Canada Research Chairs Program (2013-2024)
Relevant Publications
- Régis, C. et al. (eds.) (2024). Human-Centered AI: a Multidisciplinary Perspective for Policy- Makers, Auditors and Users, Routlegde Press, UK.
- Prud’Homme, B., Régis, C. & Farnadi, G. (eds.) (2023). Missing links in AI Governance, UNESCO press., 471 p
- Régis, C. & Gaumond, E. (2023). “Assessing The Impacts of AI on Human Rights”, National, The Canadian Bar Association, available online: https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in- depth/2023/evaluer-les-impacts-de-l-ia-sur-les-droits- fondamentaux?_ga=2.182625510.1965932232.1678289019- 1423263494.1678289019&_gl=1*1ukbvo5*_ga*MTQyMzI2MzQ5NC4xNjc4Mjg5MDE5*_ga_YT MHKDEBK2*MTY3ODI4OTAxOS4xLjAuMTY3ODI4OTAxOS4wLjAuMA..
- Koseki, S., Jameson, S., Farnadi, G., Rolnick, D., Régis, C., & Denis, J-L. (2022). AI & Cities: Risks, Applications and Governance, White paper for United Nations Habitat (UN-Habitat) available online : https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2022/10/artificial_intelligence_and_cities_risks_applica tions_and_governance.pdf
- Flood, C. & Régis, C. (2021). “Artificial intelligence and Health Law” in Scassa, T. & Marin- Bariteau, F. (eds..), Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada, Lexis Nexis, pp. 205-227.