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.
The norms of conversational advertising are being written right now by companies. Policy should be written alongside them, and it should start with recognizing that surreptitious manipulation at scale built on intimate information is itself a privacy harm, and a privacy law can, in part, solve some of those issue
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.
As Brussels starts emptying for the summer, the risks of frontier AI models continue to capture the attention of policymakers as a key chapter of the AI Act becomes enforceable, and disclosure rules around the use of AI systems and AI-generated content are further clarified.
After various months of delays in the AI Act implementation, June saw major milestones in the constitution of oversight bodies and publication of guidance, as well as the publication of the European Union’s long-awaited tech sovereignty strategy.
May was a defining month for EU AI governance, as the European Parliament and Council reached agreement on the AI Omnibus ahead of key AI Act obligations taking effect. Alongside the deal, the European Commission advanced implementation efforts with new draft guidance on high-risk AI systems and transparency obligations, while debates around AI security, copyright and competition continued to intensify across Europe.
April saw Europe’s AI policy debate reach a critical juncture, with final negotiations on the AI Omnibus underway and key disagreements still unresolved around scope and safeguards. Rapid technological developments, such as Anthropic’s Mythos model, are also intensifying pressure on EU institutions to ensure their governance framework can keep pace. CDT Europe’s April AI Bulletin keeps you up to speed on the latest EU AI governance developments.
March brought major developments in Europe’s AI policy landscape, with policymakers advancing positions on the AI Omnibus, copyright in the age of generative AI, and new rules on AI-generated content. From trilogue preparations to fresh consultations, CDT Europe’s March AI Bulletin keeps you up to speed on the latest EU AI governance developments.
EU AI Act Brief – Pt. 5, General-Purpose AI Models
CDT Europe has been publishing a series of blog posts and briefing papers on the EU AI Act and what it means for human rights. Here is the fifth post of the series where we examine General Purpose AI models (GPAI) and how they are regulated under the AI Act and additional processes and documents.
The shortest month of the year was a busy one for Europe’s policymakers, with several European Parliament groupings showing their cards in relation to the AI Act omnibus and overall position regarding deepfakes.
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.
