CDT CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens Speaks on U.S. Department of State Panel on Safe & Trustworthy AI
As countries around the world grapple with approaches to governing AI, the U.S. Department of State convened Heads of Mission and Deputy Heads of Mission from 90 countries for a briefing for the foreign diplomatic corps. CDT CEO Alexndra Givens Reeve spoke alongside Alondra Nelson and Jack Clark in a panel moderated by U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships Dorothy McAuliffe, preceded by a panel of U.S. government leaders including Ben Buchanan, Elizabeth Kelly and Seth Center, and followed by remarks from U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
The event came days before the UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution on the promotion of safe, secure and trustworthy AI, showing important international unity on key principles that should drive domestic and international governance frameworks going forward.
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
Talking Tech with Roy Austin & Alex Givens on The Future of AI Governance
In this episode of CDT’s Tech Talks, Roy L. Austin, Jr., inaugural director of Howard University School of Law’s AI Initiative, joins Alexandra Givens, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, to discuss the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of AI.
CDT-led Coalition Calls for Transparency for White House AI Framework
CDT and Americans for Responsible Innovation led a broad, bipartisan coalition of over two dozen civil society groups in calling on the White House to release its Framework for review of frontier AI models.
Comment to House Financial Services Committee on Regulation of AI
CDT submitted comments on the application of current federal laws and regulations related to the use of AI in the financial marketplace and any proposed reforms to provide for an appropriately modernized and comprehensive federal financial AI framework.
