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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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    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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  • Tech Talks: Regulating AI in the States — From the Legislative Process to Implementation
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    Tech Talks: Regulating AI in the States — From the Legislative Process to Implementation

    Tech Talks takes a deep dive into the rapidly evolving landscape of state-level tech policy, reviewing how legislatures across the country are addressing the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (AI).
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  • Tech Talks on Protecting Minors Online: A Transatlantic View on Platform Safety

    Tech Talks on Protecting Minors Online: A Transatlantic View on Platform Safety

    On this episode of the Tech Talks podcast, CDT Europe’s David Klotsonis and CDT US’ Aliya Bhatia sat down for a transatlantic conversation on one of the most pressing digital policy challenges today: protecting minors online.
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  • Tech Talks on Fair and Accountable AI: Data, Agents, and Regulation

    Tech Talks on Fair and Accountable AI: Data, Agents, and Regulation

    Questions of equity, accountability, and data use are taking center stage now that AI reshapes everything from public services to private industry. This episode kicks off our mini transnational series, bringing together CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and CDT US’s Miranda Bogen for an in-depth conversation on how AI governance is evolving on both sides of the Atlantic.
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  • Tech Talks: AI Documentation
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    Tech Talks: AI Documentation

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  • Tech Talks: Age Verification
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    Tech Talks: Age Verification

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  • Tech Talks: Woke AI
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    Tech Talks: Woke AI

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