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.
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.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
The brief explains that Section 230’s liability protections are essential to enable free expression online and they extend to the use of automated systems to engage to rank and order content as part of traditional publishing activities.
CDT and Partners Urge New York Governor to Veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act
The bill would require an automated tool accessing publicly available news websites to disclose data indicating its nature, purpose, parent company, and user it serves, and, unrealistically, every possible future use of the information it collects.
Congress Should Protect Children Online Without Sacrificing Privacy and Free Expression
CDT is urging lawmakers to pursue protections that address the underlying incentives and data practices that place young people at risk—without imposing broad censorship mandates or forcing people to surrender their privacy to access online services.
The FTC’s proposed framework wrongly treats standard technical steps that are needed to train AI models, and ensure they are accurate, reliable, fair, and safe, as potential “deceptive steering” away from an assumed “neutral” baseline.
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).
Senate AI and Kids Safety Package Won’t Justify Preempting State AI Laws
Congress should not stifle states' work in favor of incomplete and constitutionally problematic legislative packages that create a patchwork of protections at best and erode our privacy and free expression rights at worst.
Silenced by Design: Gendered Disinformation and its Threat to Democracy
Our latest paper on gendered disinformation and the EU’s response to this growing democratic challenge is part of our TFGBV series. It explores how existing legislation can be leveraged to tackle gendered disinformation, where the current framework falls short, and what policymakers should do next.
