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AI Policy & Governance

CDT works on AI across our policy teams addressing issues such as: how artificial intelligence can affect civil rights and economic inequality when making decisions such as job and insurance eligibility; how law enforcement’s use of AI systems like facial recognition can threaten civil liberties; the government’s use of AI in education, benefits programs, and other services; and AI’s impact on online speech and information integrity through technologies such as recommendation algorithms and generative AI.

Now is an essential time to establish how AI is designed, deployed, and regulated – with the goal of promoting responsible innovation. CDT is at the forefront of these discussions, advocating to policymakers, engaging directly with companies about their practices, and conducting research and public advocacy to ensure artificial intelligence develops in a manner that is consistent with human rights and democratic values.

CDT’s AI Governance Lab

CDT’s AI Governance Lab develops and promotes adoption of robust, technically-informed solutions for the effective regulation and governance of AI systems. The Lab provides public interest expertise in rapidly developing policy and technical conversations, to advance the interests of individuals whose lives and rights are impacted by AI.

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Searchable Database of CDT’s Work on AI

The CDT AI Policy tracker brings together all of CDT’s work on AI, enabling quick review of CDT’s AI-related policy positions, archives previous positions that may have changed, and promotes the discovery of common themes in CDT’s AI work.

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Recent Content

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CDT’s Matt Scherer Testifies Before Connecticut Senate’s General Law Committee on Senate Bill 2, An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence

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CDT Europe’s AI Bulletin: April 2024

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CDT Comments to NTIA on Open Foundation Models

CDT report entitled “Up in the Air: Educators Juggling the Potential of Generative AI with Detection, Discipline, and Distrust.” Illustration of an “AI-generated apple” with a parachute flying through an open sky, and “AI-generated” schoolwork, book, pencil & eraser falling behind. Note: this illustration was created solely by a human.

Report – Up in the Air: Educators Juggling the Potential of Generative AI with Detection, Discipline, and Distrust 

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CDT Hosts Roundtable on Generative AI and Elections with U.S. Department of State Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy

CDT Joins Mozilla, Civil Society Orgs, and Leading Academics in Urging U.S. Secretary of Commerce to Protect AI Openness. White document on grey background.

CDT Joins Mozilla, Civil Society Orgs, and Leading Academics in Urging U.S. Secretary of Commerce to Protect AI Openness

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