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.
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.”
Countdown to the Midterms: Social Media Platform Policies and the Information Environment
The 2026 midterm elections will take place in a materially different information environment than recent election cycles; one marked by reduced reliance on traditional fact-checking, evolving creator and monetization frameworks, expanded latitude for hateful speech, and diminished transparency.
Countdown to the Midterms: Mapping the Rapid Evolution of Election Security
In the past year, budget cuts and policy reversals across the federal government have weakened the nation’s ability to defend the cybersecurity of election infrastructure, counter foreign information operations, and share intelligence about emerging threats.
