Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI
CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.
As concern about risks and harms related to AI systems continue to grow, a growing chorus of policymakers, industry leaders, and advocates have called for independent AI assessments. This explainer provides an overview of recent proposals for third-party assessment in the United States, including state and federal legislation, executive actions, and industry proposals.
Having third parties assess AI systems might seem like common sense, but crafting effective policies toward this goal can be devilishly tricky. A poorly-constructed ecosystem for third-party assessment could easily fail to consider the most consequential mechanisms of risk, neglect the AI harms that most impact people, or do more to protect AI companies than people.
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.
Holding the Line: Preserving the Core Features of the EU’s GDPR
On European Data Protection Day, we urge decision makers to reflect on the implications of the Digital Omnibus proposal and to strive to protect the high standards of data protection that the GDPR has long guaranteed.
The start of 2026 is marked by mounting pressure points in EU AI policy: new rules on labelling AI-generated content, a deepening debate over sexual deepfakes, and sustained resistance to the Commission’s Omnibus Tech proposal. This month, we track where legal gaps are emerging and where rights protections are being defended.
CDT Europe’s Analysis of the Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal
Following our initial reaction after the Digital Omnibus simplification package was announced on 19 November, CDT Europe has undertaken further analysis of both proposals and how they relate to artificial intelligence.
CDT Europe’s Statement on the Digital Omnibus Package
On 19 November, the European Commission published the Digital Omnibus Package; a twinset of proposals suggesting amendments to crucial laws underpinning the EU digital rulebook, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act).
CDT Europe Responds to the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus Consultation
CDT Europe was glad to contribute to the European Commission’s consultation on the Digital Omnibus package, which aims to simplify the EU’s digital rulebook. In our submission, we urged caution against proposals that could weaken the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), a cornerstone of Europe’s human rights–based approach to AI governance.
7th Civil Society Roundtable “Ensuring the Effective Implementation of the AI Act: Charting a Way Forward”
On 22 September 2025, CDT Europe and the Open Government Partnership brought together 50 representatives from civil society, European institutions, Member States and regulatory authorities to discuss the implementation status of the AI Act.
Joint CSOs Open Letter on Keeping the AI Act National Implementation on Track
CDT Europe, together with 30 other civil society organisations, wrote an open letter to the European Commission and Member States to express our concerns regarding the timely implementation of the AI Act, considering how, despite the deadline for Member States to enact the Act and designate competent national authorities expiring, almost no Member State has fulfilled these critical obligations.
CDT Europe’s Reaction to the Final Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI Draft
On 10 July 2025, the European AI Office published the final draft of the Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. CDT Europe welcomes the Code of Practice’s inclusion of fundamental rights risks in the systemic risk taxonomy considering that earlier versions of the Code failed to meaningfully integrate consideration of fundamental rights risks, despite extensive rounds of feedback and civil society warnings.
