📢 CAIDP Update 6.28 - AI Policy News (July 15, 2024) ✝ 🕌 ☸ 🕉 ✡ World Religions Unite in Hiroshima to Sign AI Ethics Pledge 🇺🇸 FTC Outlines AI Oversight as CAIDP Urges Action on OpenAI Investigation 🇪🇺 EU AI Act Published: Compliance Countdown Begins for Companies NATO Unveils New AI Strategy in Tech Transformation Push 🇧🇷 Brazil Maintains Ban on Meta's AI Data Collection 🇩🇪 German Bundesrat Proposes Law to Criminalize Deepfakes 🗣 🏛 CAIDP Report Urges Congress to Act on FTC's Stalled OpenAI Investigation 🗣 🇬🇧 CAIDP President Addresses AI Challenges at Data for Policy Conference 🗣 🏛 CAIDP Urges Senate Action on AI Privacy Protections #aigovernance #euaia #brazil #germany Merve Hickok Federal Trade Commission NATO
Center for AI and Digital Policy
Public Policy Offices
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The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to ensure that artificial intelligence and digital policies promote a better society, more fair, more just, and more accountable – a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law. As an independent non-profit corporation, the Center for AI and Digital Policy will bring together world leaders, innovators, advocates, and thinkers to promote established frameworks for AI policy – including the OECD AI Principles and the Universal Guidelines for AI – and to explore emerging challenges.
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- 2021
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Ren Bin Lee Dixon
AI policy, governance, and ethics
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Gry Hasselbalch
Author & Scholar | PhD. | AI/Data Ethics & International Policy Expert | Co-founder DataEthics.eu | The books #HumanPower (2025), #DataPollution…
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Merve Hickok
President - Center for AI & Digital Policy | Founder-AIethicist.org | 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics | Lecturer @University of Michigan | Lifetime…
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Marco Bani
Head of Public Affairs and Innovation | Tech/AI Policy
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President - Center for AI & Digital Policy | Founder-AIethicist.org | 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics | Lecturer @University of Michigan | Lifetime Achievement Award - Women in AI of the Year
What a privilege to meet alumni of Center for AI and Digital Policy in conferences across the globe. Simone Maria Parazzoli and Joseph A. shining through with their research on algorithmic accountability and data custodians 👏🏽 And finally meeting in-person with our CAIDP Fellow and incoming Teaching Fellow Selin Ozbek Cittone 🫶🏽 Feeling grateful for this community Marc Rotenberg Karine Caunes Grace S. Thomson Varsha Sewlal Tamiko Eto Selim Alan Also thank you Data for Policy CIC team for great conversations - Zeynep Engin, PhD Jon Crowcroft Stefaan Verhulst, PhD Mark Kennedy Peter Ford
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📢 CAIDP Delivers Statement to US Senate on AI and Privacy In advance of a Senate hearing on "The Need to Protect Americans’ Privacy and the AI Accelerant," the Center for AI and Digital Policy submitted a statement with several recommendations. ➡ CAIDP expressed support for baseline, federal privacy legislation, and particularly provisions in the original American Privacy Rights Act that would ensure transparency and accountability for AI-based decision-making. ➡ CAIDP emphasized the correct understanding of Privacy Enhancing Technologies are techniques that "minimize or eliminate the collection of personal data." These techniques safeguard privacy, minimize the risks of data breaches, and begin to address the environmental impact of large AI models. PETs, properly understood, are the "anti-accelerant." ➡ CAIDP called attention to public survey data that shows broad public support - across regions and political parties - for government action to regulate AI ➡ CAIDP also called attention to its new report - "ChatGPT and the Federal Trade Commission: Still No Guardrails." In the report, CAIDP traced the history of its 2023 complaint to the Federal Trade Commission about OpenAI, the early reports of the investigation in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and then the FTC's delay in issuing a final order. #aigovernance U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Majority Merve Hickok Marc Rotenberg Christabel R. Kyler Zhou
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📢 CAIDP Releases "Still No Guardrails" Report - Urges Congress to Press FTC Commissioners on OpenAI Investigation 🔥 🔥 🔥 🗣 Prior to a Congressional hearing on the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for AI and Digital Policy released a new report - "Still No Guardrails" - to call attention to the FTC’s failure to act on the complaint CAIDP filed with the FTC about OpenAI in March 2023. 📰 In July 2023, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that the FTC had undertaken the investigation CAIDP requested, but a year later there is still no outcome and no guardrails for the most widely deployed commercial AI product in the world. 🔥 CAIDP warned that commercialized AI services will turbocharge risks to public safety, online child safety, cybersecurity, deception, and election integrity. A study led by Alondra Nelson at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) revealed that AI chatbots delivered false election information at least 50% of the time. CAIDP urged Congress to ask the FTC Commissioners about the status of the OpenAI investigation and specifically when there will be an outcome. 🔥 "We believe the longer the FTC waits to act, the more difficult it will be to establish safeguards for ChatGPT and other similar AI services." 🔥 "The safe, secure, and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence is critical for the American economy, consumer protection, public safety, and national security." CAIDP's Merve Hickok Christabel R. and Marc Rotenberg also recently published a commentary in The Hill -- "It’s time for the FTC to act on ChatGPT." - https://lnkd.in/eqTHe-q7
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📢 CAIDP Update 6.27 - AI Policy News (July 8, 2024) 🇧🇷 Brazil Halts Meta's AI Data Collection 🏭 Google's AI Ambitions Fuel 48% Surge in Emissions 🇻🇳 Vietnam Proposes Strict AI Regulations 🇨🇳 China Dominates Global Generative AI Patent Filings, UN Report Finds 🇷🇺 Russia Mandates Insurance for AI Developers 🌐 OECD and GPAI Forge Alliance to Promote Responsible AI Development 🇳🇱 Dutch Watchdog Warns of Persistent Algorithmic Discrimination in Government 🗣 🏛 CAIDP Provides Comments to Civil Liberties Board on AI and Counterterrorism 🗣 🤖 🔬 CAIDP's Rotenberg Advocates for Robust AI Risk Management at National Academies 🗣 📰 CAIDP Advocates for Opt-In AI Training Policies in NYT Letter #aigovernance #environment #trainingdata #brazil Google #vietnam #china #russia #netherlands OECD.AI GPAI Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board The New York Times The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Marc Rotenberg
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📢 CAIDP Provides Comments to Civil Liberties Board on AI and Counterterrorism 🔥 CAIDP explained, "AI systems that claim to detect emotions, thoughts, or truthfulness from physical features, conversations, and expressions are pseudoscientific and discriminatory." 🔥 CAIDP also wrote, "The Board must exercise its oversight authority to ensure that rights-impacting AI systems are not deployed and entrenched in counter-terrorism and national security efforts." 🔥 Regarding a key advisory board, CAIDP said, "If DHS seeks to fairly evaluate public concerns of implementing AI systems into counterterrorism and national security efforts, the DHS should establish clear measures to address conflicts of interest that would arise from the corporate/industry members on its Board." CAIDP made several recommendations: 1️⃣ Prohibit pseudoscientific and human-rights violating techniques in counter-terrorism and national security AI systems 2️⃣ Establish safeguards in accordance with the OMB AI Guidance for AI systems used for counterterrorism and national security efforts 3️⃣ Address conflicts of interest for AI Safety and Security Board participants who also participate in the federal procurement process 4️⃣ Ensure that Generative AI systems are not considered critical infrastructure Merve Hickok Marc Rotenberg Christabel R. Samir Duggasani #aigovernance Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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📢 CAIDP Update 6.16 - AI Policy News (July 1, 2024) 📖 OECD Report Calls for Alignment of AI Development with Privacy Protection 🇪🇺 EU Tightens Grip on AI: Competition and Oversight in Focus 🇹🇷 🇧🇷 🇶🇦 Turkey, Brazil, and Qatar Advance AI Governance with New Regulations and Guidelines 🏛 CAIDP Advocates for Stronger AI Safeguards in Federal Privacy Bill 🌏 CAIDP President Participates in UNESCO Policy Dialogue on AI Governance 📰 CAIDP Advocates for Opt-In AI Training Policies in NYT Letter #aigovernance #Turkey #Brazil #Qatar OECD.AI European Union UNESCO The New York Times
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📢 CAIDP Authors Letter in The New York Times on AI Training, Slack, and Opt-In (June 28, 2024) In a letter published today in The New York Times, CAIDP's Marc Rotenberg, Christabel R. and Kara Solange Kelawan wrote: "Re “A.I. Devices Want More of Our Data,” by Brian X. Chen (Tech Fix column, June 26): 💡 "Mr. Chen makes a good point about the privacy and security risks of companies collecting customer data to train artificial intelligence models. But the companies are not waiting for user permission to repurpose this data. They assume they can do this unless customers object." 🤔 "In a recent statement to Slack, we opted out of its plan to use our data and the data of our friends and colleagues who collaborate with us for training A.I. models. We cannot assume that they would want their content, created for our common projects, to be used by the company for other purposes. ➡ "We have also urged Slack to withdraw the proposed change in its business practices and adopt an opt-in model for the use of customer data for A.I. training. 🔥 "If some users wish to provide their data to Slack for A.I. training, that should be their choice. But it is simply unfair and deceptive for Slack to take user data without explicit permission, particularly after it announced, “You own and control the content within your Slack workspace.” 🔥 🔥 "We have also notified the Federal Trade Commission of our concerns." [In 2023, the Center for AI and Digital Policy filed a detailed complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, explaining that OpenAI had violated US consumer protection law when it released ChatGPT knowing of the various risks to public safety, democratic institutions, privacy, intellectual property, and cybersecurity.] #aigovernance #OurData https://lnkd.in/ecx-tCg2
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📢 CAIDP Advises US Congress on Privacy Legislation, Focuses on Need to Strengthen AI Provisions In a statement issued in advance of a meeting in Congress to consider the American Privacy Rights Act, the Center for AI and Digital Policy urged US lawmakers to strengthen key provisions concerning AI systems. As CAIDP explained, "We support this long-awaited step towards a federal privacy law. This work is urgent given the growing risks to public safety and civil liberties. Many AI systems rely on the collection of personal data. These systems diminish privacy and are used for mass surveillance. AI systems pose new challenges for privacy, dignity, autonomy, and equality." CAIDP made several recommendations: 1️⃣ Restore the Civil Rights safeguards for AI systems and the definition of "covered algorithm" that were in the original privacy legislation 2️⃣ Expand the definition of biometric data so that it aligns with the Federal Trade Commission definition 3️⃣ Make clear that Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) refer specifically to techniques that "minimize or eliminate" the collection and use of personal data 4️⃣ Ensure that a federal privacy law establishes a national baseline and does not preempt stronger state safeguards #apra #aigovernance Marc Rotenberg Merve Hickok Christabel R. Giulia N. Kaely Hall
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📢 OECD Publishes Report on AI, Data Governance, and Privacy In the age of rapid digital transformation, the OECD.AI has published a report that highlights six critical policy considerations to ensure that AI systems are effective and respect user privacy : 1. Ensuring transparency in AI systems 2. Safeguarding data privacy 3. Enhancing data security measures 4. Promoting data access and sharing 5. Encouraging international cooperation 6. Regulating AI technology use effectively ➡ As the OECD explains, the report "maps the principles set in the OECD Privacy Guidelines (1980) to the OECD AI Principles (2023), takes stock of national and regional initiatives, and suggests potential areas for collaboration." ➡ "The report supports the implementation of the OECD Privacy Guidelines alongside the OECD AI Principles. By advocating for international co-operation, the report aims to guide the development of AI systems that respect and support privacy." CAIDP Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said, "The OECD AI and Privacy report is an important contribution to the field. Fairness, accuracy, and transparency are the foundation for data protection and remain central to the design of human-centric and trustworthy AI." Karine Perset Clarisse Girot Reuven Eidelman Denise Wong Dr. Clara Neppel Yordanka Ivanova Kari Laumann Winston Maxwell Marc Rotenberg Dominique Greene-Sanders Tamiko Eto Nayyara Rahman Merve Hickok Karine Caunes Center for AI and Digital Policy Europe #aigovernance #dataprotection #privacy #transparency #humancentric