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Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
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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.
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  • The Friendliest Ad You’ll Ever Meet
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    The Friendliest Ad You’ll Ever Meet

    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
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  • Talking Tech with Roy Austin & Alex Givens on The Future of AI Governance
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    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.
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  • CDT-led Coalition Calls for Transparency for White House AI Framework
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    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.
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    Op-ed: Voter Registration Database Protections Are Resilient

    Op-ed: Voter Registration Database Protections Are Resilient

    There is no evidence that the systems states use for voter registration databases were corrupted in any prior election, including in 2020, and states have only strengthened security and their processes to ensure the accuracy of voter rolls since.
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  • Countdown to the Midterms: Reexamining Foreign Influence in 2020 Elections
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    Countdown to the Midterms: Reexamining Foreign Influence in 2020 Elections

    “No indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”
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