CDT’s Kristin Woelfel Submits Written Testimony to Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
On May 1, CDT submitted written testimony to the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the intersection of civil rights and AI in education. Our testimony provides a summary of CDT’s legal analysis of student civil rights laws as applied to the disproportionate impacts of AI-powered educational technologies on protected classes of students, along with a copy of the full legal research report and slide deck with visual depictions of CDT’s polling data. Specifically, our testimony:
Lays out key legal authorities for civil rights enforcement in schools;
Lists key discrimination principles under which claims for algorithmic discrimination in schools might arise;
Describes specific types of AI-powered education technologies that are known or likely to have a discriminatory impact on protected classes; and
Briefly summarizes CDT’s recommendations to local education leaders to address potential AI-driven inequities in school.
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.
