CDT Joins UC Berkeley Labor Center and Others in Letter to CPPA Urging Strong Workers’ Rights and Transparency in Upcoming Rules on Automated Decisionmaking Technologies
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) joined 34 labor, civil rights, and civil society organizations in comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) regarding its forthcoming rules on Automated Decisionmaking Technologies and Risk Assessments.
The letter urges the CPPA to ensure its rules:
Protect workers’ rights and dignity,
Provide transparency regarding employers’ use of automated decisionmaking, and
Give workers the same agency as consumers with respect to their data.
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.
