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.
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.
How Policymakers Can Address AI Auditing and Assessment Requirements
As more state policymakers consider third-party AI auditing or assessment requirements, these policies face important challenges to their effectiveness.
The FTC’s proposed framework wrongly treats standard technical steps that are needed to train AI models, and ensure they are accurate, reliable, fair, and safe, as potential “deceptive steering” away from an assumed “neutral” baseline.
