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.
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.
Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights.
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.
CDT Europe Hosts a Second Civil Society Workshop to Discuss the AI Act’s Implementation
On 19 May 2025, CDT Europe organised a second workshop that brought together a wide variety of civil society representatives working on the AI Act implementation, after last year’s event held in June 2024, right before the entry into force of the regulation.
