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.
CDT Europe’s Statement on the Digital Omnibus Package
On 19 November, the European Commission published the Digital Omnibus Package; a twinset of proposals suggesting amendments to crucial laws underpinning the EU digital rulebook, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act).
CDT Europe Responds to the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus Consultation
CDT Europe was glad to contribute to the European Commission’s consultation on the Digital Omnibus package, which aims to simplify the EU’s digital rulebook. In our submission, we urged caution against proposals that could weaken the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), a cornerstone of Europe’s human rights–based approach to AI governance.
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.
