On September 15, 2026, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an amicus brief along with the Wikimedia Foundation in Meta Platforms v. Bonta, challenging California’s SB 976.
Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI
CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.
As concern about risks and harms related to AI systems continue to grow, a growing chorus of policymakers, industry leaders, and advocates have called for independent AI assessments. This explainer provides an overview of recent proposals for third-party assessment in the United States, including state and federal legislation, executive actions, and industry proposals.
Having third parties assess AI systems might seem like common sense, but crafting effective policies toward this goal can be devilishly tricky. A poorly-constructed ecosystem for third-party assessment could easily fail to consider the most consequential mechanisms of risk, neglect the AI harms that most impact people, or do more to protect AI companies than people.
Assessing AI: Surveying the Spectrum of Approaches to Understanding and Auditing AI Systems
CDT's report maps the spectrum of AI assessment approaches, from narrowest to broadest and from least to most independent, to identify which approaches best serve which goals.
State Legislatures Continued Their Focus on Public Sector AI Use and Expanded Attention to Risk Management Practices During the 2025 Legislative Session
Building an Harmonised Legal Framework to Address Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
CDT Europe is launching a series of papers on tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), starting from this analysis of the legislative framework governing the issue.
Risky Business: Advanced AI Companies’ Race for Revenue
We need to pay attention not only to the financial viability of frontier AI companies, but also to how the choices they make in pursuit of that goal may affect users’ rights and interests.
