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.
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.
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.
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.
CDT Europe’s Analysis of the Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal
Following our initial reaction after the Digital Omnibus simplification package was announced on 19 November, CDT Europe has undertaken further analysis of both proposals and how they relate to artificial intelligence.
