CDT’s Matt Scherer Testifies Before Connecticut Senate’s General Law Committee on Senate Bill 2, An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence
On February 29, CDT testified in front of the Connecticut Senate’s General Law Committee on Senate Bill 2, An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence. CDT thanked the committee for its and the sponsor’s work on the wide-ranging bill, while offering a number of suggestions to strengthen it, including:
Strengthening the definitions to ensure that companies cannot evade accountability
Expanding notice and transparency requirements for AI-driven decisions
Strengthening enforcement provisions for AI-driven decisions
Eliminating loopholes that would allow the makers and users of biased AI systems to avoid disclosing their use of AI when making high-stakes decisions
Tightening the scope of the bill’s deceptive media prohibitions to ensure legitimate satire and criticism are protected
Ensuring that the provisions establishing studies and working groups for state use of AI include consumer and worker voices and reflect consumer and worker interests
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.
