Category: IT Policy

July 24, 2023

The White House recently persuaded Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to sign a document dictating several voluntary commitments for ensuring a “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy” AI. Many things could change in the months to come, starting with […]

July 18, 2023

Federal activity in the generative AI space so far has been limited. While federal agencies have fielded more than a thousand AI use cases, they aren’t yet widely leveraging the content-creation powers of ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and other large language […]

July 10, 2023

The European Commission today finalized its approval of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in the latest step in a lengthy effort to harmonize the two sets of laws and allow for cross-border data transfer, but critics say that it is […]

June 20, 2023

President Joe Biden is expected to meet with a cohort of experts and researchers in the expanding field of artificial intelligence, part of the ongoing executive effort to integrate more private sector and academic expertise into federal technology policy. Announced […]

June 5, 2023

Ever since generative AI exploded into public consciousness with the launch of ChatGPT at the end of last year, calls to regulate the technology to stop it from causing undue harm have risen to fever pitch around the world. The […]

May 22, 2023

Members of the EU Parliament have agreed on a first draft for regulating the use of AI. The AI ​​Act is now taking the next procedural step to be negotiated and worked out with individual member states. In the end, […]

May 17, 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in the US Senate today about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence technology made by his company and others, and urged lawmakers to impose licensing requirements and other regulations on organizations that make advanced AI […]

May 10, 2023

The top lawyer for OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, argued that the best way to regulate artificial intelligence is not to start with government mandated rules and regulations but to allow the companies themselves to set standards that ensure […]

May 8, 2023

Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms. But there is very little consensus on how it should be done. Should TikTok be banned? Should younger children be […]

May 3, 2023

A Marine veteran lawmaker says the U.S. should be pushing for a new international agreement to govern the use of artificial intelligence on the battlefield and believes it’s a “strategic mistake” the Pentagon hasn’t started this important task. Rep. Seth […]

April 28, 2023

Congress has undertaken a flurry of new activity targeting artificial intelligence technologies in recent weeks, following the rapid advancement and ambiguous implications of AI systems. Lawmakers from both chambers—namely Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Don Beyer, […]

April 25, 2023

The EU Commission has announced 19 large online platforms and search engines that will face new content moderation rules under the Digital Services Act. The legislation, passed last year, introduced a specific regime for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and […]

April 20, 2023

Cybersecurity and technology experts warned lawmakers Wednesday that recent artificial intelligence and machine learning advancements have outpaced current policies within the federal government, necessitating new regulations and standards to help grapple with the rapid development of emerging technologies. And while […]

April 14, 2023

The Biden administration is pursuing regulations for artificial intelligence systems that would require government audits to ensure they produce trustworthy outputs, which could include assessments of whether AI is promoting “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Alan Davidson, assistant secretary of communications and […]

April 11, 2023

On January 6, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update its data breach reporting rules for telecommunications carriers. “The law requires carriers to protect sensitive consumer information but, given the increase […]

March 29, 2023

A bipartisan group of senators have reintroduced legislation to shore up the physical and digital security of federal data centers from a range of potential threats as agencies continue to consolidate their information repositories. The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act—introduced […]

March 27, 2023

The U.S. government will restrict its use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world, under an executive order issued Monday by President Joe Biden. The order responds to […]

March 3, 2023

A leading trade association representing the information and communications technology industries has pushed back on a series of software liability reforms featured in the new national cybersecurity strategy this week. The Information Technology Industry Council warned of overreach, implementation issues […]

January 23, 2023

The federal government’s new cybersecurity grant program continues to loom large for state and local technology officials, with several more mileposts to go before the money starts flowing, government IT experts said last week. Speaking during a biannual online briefing […]

January 4, 2023

Government agencies don’t have a “precise definition” of artificial intelligence accountability in federal guidance, according to a new report from the non-profit American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s group focused on emerging technology. Although non-binding risk management and […]