Artificial Intelligence

On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.[1]

The executive order provides a sprawling list of directives aimed at establishing standards for AI safety and security and protecting privacy.

While the executive order acknowledges the executive branch’s lack of authority for any lawmaking or rulemaking

Following its many warnings of impending enforcement action against entities providing Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) products, the FTC has officially launched an investigation into OpenAI[1]. The FTC initiates its investigation on the heels of the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s July 10, 2023 supplement to its March 30, 2023 complaint, which requests that

Just last week, researchers at Robust Intelligence were able to manipulate NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence software, the “NeMo Framework,” to ignore safety restraints and reveal private information. According to reports, it only took hours for the Robust Intelligence researchers to get the NeMo framework to release personally identifiable information from a database.[1] Since these vulnerabilities were

The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence.  The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the U.K.’s] intention to build the most pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world; to drive prosperity across the UK and ensure everyone

At this point you have probably heard about one of the many incidents where an AI-enabled system discriminated against certain populations in settings ranging from healthcare, law enforcement, and hiring, among others. In response to this problem, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently proposed a strategy for identifying and managing bias in

As part of its three-part series on the future of human-computer interaction (HCI), Facebook Reality Labs recently published a blog post describing a wrist-based wearable device that uses electromyography (EMG) to translate electrical motor nerve signals that travel through the wrist to the hand into digital commands that can be used to control the functions

Today the U.S. Supreme Court found in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. that the federal debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s general prohibition on autodialed calls violates the First Amendment.  The Supreme Court held that the exemption was a content-based restriction on speech because it favors speech made

The European Commission recently presented strategies for data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on promoting excellence in AI and building trust.  The Commission’s White Paper, “On Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust,” addresses the balance between the promotion of AI with regulation of its risks.  “Given the major impact

The New Jersey attorney general recently made headlines when he made the decision on January 24, 2020 to have prosecutors immediately stop using a facial recognition app produced by Clearview AI (https://clearview.ai/).  Clearview AI is an app that markets itself as helping to stop criminals.  The Clearview AI website states: “Clearview helps to

One notable difference between the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is that only the latter provides the right for individuals to not be subjected to automated decision-making, including profiling, which has legal or other significant effects on that individual.

But, the CCPA still creates issues for covered entities