CDT Joins Coalition Letter in Support of Funding NIST’s AI Initiatives
Leading technology advocacy organizations urge Congress to support National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funding request for responsible AI innovation. More than 80 organizations, companies, and universities joined a letter asking congressional appropriators to fully fund the NIST budget requests for AI-related work in the upcoming fiscal year.
As concern about risks and harms related to AI systems continue to grow, a growing chorus of policymakers, industry leaders, and advocates have called for independent AI assessments. This explainer provides an overview of recent proposals for third-party assessment in the United States, including state and federal legislation, executive actions, and industry proposals.
Having third parties assess AI systems might seem like common sense, but crafting effective policies toward this goal can be devilishly tricky. A poorly-constructed ecosystem for third-party assessment could easily fail to consider the most consequential mechanisms of risk, neglect the AI harms that most impact people, or do more to protect AI companies than people.
Will the Open Internet Survive the War on Bots? Mapping the Debate Over “AI Preferences”
When should individuals and organizations be able to use automated tools or “bots” to collect data from or interact with openly published websites — whether we call it “scraping”, “crawling,” or simply automated data collection?
Can Generative Intermediaries Deliver When It Comes to Information Quality?
LLM-powered systems are mediating what people know and believe, the decisions they make, their ability to participate in democracy, and their ability to access trustworthy information on the issues that matter most to them.
