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.
CDT, EFF, EPIC, and Upturn Submit Comments on GSA’s Updated Draft AI Terms and Conditions for Federal Contracts
Today, the Center for Democracy & Technology and allies submitted comments to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the request for comment regarding their updated draft AI Terms and Conditions for federal solicitations and contracts.
CDT Submits Comments Urging Careful Approach for Expansion of Do Not Pay System
CDT urges agencies to protect the personal data with which they have been entrusted by applying robust data minimization practices, enacting strong security protocols, limiting redisclosure, and mitigating data quality issues.
CDT and EPIC Submit Comments Regarding the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Attempt to Expand Data Collection and AI Use in Key Departmental System
Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Protect Democracy Project, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center Submit Comments Regarding the General Services Administration’s Draft AI Terms and Conditions for Federal Contracts
DOJ’s Request for Sensitive Data from Minnesota Builds on the Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Effort to Consolidate Personal Data Across the Federal Government
