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📰 CAIDP's Merve Hickok Christabel R. and Marc Rotenberg publish commentary in The Hill, Urge Federal Trade Commission to act on OpenAI Case ➡ "More than a year ago, our group, the Center for AI and Digital Policy, filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about OpenAI. We alleged that OpenAI had violated U.S. consumer protection law by releasing a consumer product without sufficient safeguards. And we urged the FTC to act to ensure independent oversight of OpenAI and other AI companies." ➡ "Much of the evidence for our compliant was gathered from OpenAI itself. The company’s GPT-4 “system card,” a technical specification of the product’s design, listed many risks following the deployment of ChatGPT. Bias, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, election interference and threats to consumer privacy and public safety were all acknowledged by the company prior to release of the product. . . ➡ "In July 2023, The New York Times reported that the agency had launched the investigation we requested. The detailed document request to OpenAI also indicated that the FTC identified copyright concerns that we had missed and that OpenAI had failed to disclose in the system card. ➡ "We thought we were making progress. ➡ "But since July, there has been no word about the investigation of the world’s most impactful publicly available AI product. The FTC’s delay is all the more troublesome because OpenAI, like many big tech firms, is cutting safety and security teams at the same time competition is increasing. Remarkably, experts inside and outside the company warn that the problems are far greater than the public is aware. . . ." 🔥 🔥 🔥 "OpenAI has acknowledged the problems. Employees have warned that there are more dangers ahead. It is time for the FTC to complete the investigation of OpenAI and establish guardrails for the AI industry." #aigovernance #guardrails #consumerprotection https://lnkd.in/eqTHe-q7

📢 BREAKING - G7 Leaders Issue Communique, Launch AI Action Plan, Publish Extensive Comments on AI "We will promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. We will pursue an inclusive, human-centered, digital transformation that underpins economic growth and sustainable development, maximizes benefits, and manages risks, in line with our shared democratic values and respect for human rights. . . " . . . we will step up our coordination around the evolution of our governance and regulatory frameworks, including by sharing best practices. We will enhance our regular consultations. We are also committed to deepening coordination between our respective institutes and offices focused on AI, to work towards shared understanding of risk management and advance international standards for AI development and deployment. . . . "We welcome the G7 Toolkit for Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector, that can help governments to deliver better services to our economies and societies, while protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms. "We ask our Labor Ministers to develop the action plan, envisaging concrete actions to fully leverage the potential of AI to enable decent work and workers’ rights and full access to adequate reskilling and upskilling, while addressing potential challenges and risks to our labor markets. . . . . "we encourage transparency and adherence to international workers’ rights and labor standards at each stage of the AI supply chain. We also encourage our competition authorities to monitor the development of the AI industry, with a view to addressing potential competition issues, and prevent adverse effects at an early stage. " we welcome the Italian Presidency’s decision to establish the AI Hub for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with UNDP. The Hub aims to enable multistakeholder partnerships to support local AI digital ecosystems, . . "We recognize the impact of AI on the military domain and the need for a framework for responsible development and use. We welcome those who have endorsed the Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy (REAIM) and the REAIM Call to Action, and we encourage more states to do so to ensure that military use of AI is responsible, complies with applicable international law, particularly international humanitarian law, and enhances international security. "We welcome the establishment of the G7 Venice Justice Group, which will serve as a coordinative function to address global challenges, including AI, using our judicial and enforcement expertise. . . .we recognize the impacts of deploying AI within the justice sector and that the use of AI systems must not interfere with the decision-making power of judges nor judicial independence." #aigovernance #g7 https://lnkd.in/esA-HBiP.

📢 At G7 Summit, Pope Francis Calls for Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Warns Humans Must Maintain Control of AI Systems Pope Francis called for a ban on “lethal autonomous weapons” in an address to the G7 leaders’ summit in Italy on the perils of artificial intelligence (AI), and he urged world leaders to take action to safeguard human dignity. 🔥 “In light of the tragedy that is armed conflict, it is urgent to reconsider the development and use of devices like the so-called ‘lethal autonomous weapons’ and ultimately ban their use,” the pope said. "No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being," he said, adding that people should not let superpowerful algorithms decide their destiny. 🔥 “Artificial intelligence [is] at the same time an exciting and fearsome tool. We would condemn humanity to a future without hope if we took away people’s ability to make decisions about themselves and their lives, by dooming them to depend on the choices of machines.” 🔥 “This starts from an effective and concrete commitment to introduce ever greater and proper human control. No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being," he said. "We need to ensure and safeguard a space for proper human control over the choices made by artificial intelligence programs: Human dignity itself depends on it.” 🔥 Speaking to world leaders, the Pope said, "It is up to everyone to make good use of (AI) but the onus is on politics to create the conditions for such good use to be possible and fruitful.” Italian President Georgia Meloni underscored the historic moment in opening remarks, "It is the first time that a Pontiff participates in a meeting of the Group of Seven." She said the G7 dedicated an Outreach session to Artificial Intelligence because of "the opportunities it opens up and the risks it hides." The Center for AI and Digital Policy has often cited the Pope's statements on AI in support of a global AI treaty. Earlier this year, the Council of Europe adopted the first international treaty for AI. The AI Treaty protects fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law and is open for ratification on September 5. CAIDP has urged countries to adopt the highest possible standards set out in the Council of Europe AI Treaty. Center for AI and Digital Policy Europe #aigovernace #popeFrancis #g7 Prepared text - https://lnkd.in/edzUYvm5 https://lnkd.in/eSitbe-n

📢 CEOs Favor Regulation of Tech Industry "At a pivotal moment for new forms of artificial intelligence—and the internet itself—an overwhelming number of CEOs appear to be looking for a reassessment of how these technologies are governed. "That was the big takeaway from an online forum hosted by The Yale School of Management’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the internet. "In three striking poll results, the 200 large-company CEOs in the audience expressed extraordinary unanimity when it comes to re-evaluating the legal protections that underpin the success of companies such as Google, Facebook and TikTok. 🔥 Some 85 percent of those surveyed said they strongly agreed or agreed with the statement “I am in favor of stronger government regulation of social media platforms.” 🔥 A full 100 percent of those voting said they favored the Kids Online Safety Act sponsored by senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). 🔥 When asked about Section 230 - legal immunity for Internet companies — 96 percent of the CEOs said the law was “obsolete” Yale School of Management Jeff Sonnenfeld #aigovernance #publicopinion https://lnkd.in/eMhRPKdS

📢 CAIDP Provides Comments to the UK ICO on Generative AI and Individual Rights (June 10, 2024) The Center for AI and Digital Policy has provided details comments to the UK 🇬🇧 Information Commissioner's Office on Generative AI and individual rights. CAIDP wrote: 🔥 "We reiterate the criticality and urgency of the actions that ICO must undertake to set guardrails against AI systems that infringe upon the fundamental rights of the UK public. ICO must enact governance mechanisms to ensure that AI actors processing personal data, treat people fairly, that systems are accountable, that adverse decisions are contestable and that transparency is meaningful.” ➡ "CAIDP strongly advises the ICO to integrate the UNESCO Recommendations on the Ethics of AI as the premium framework for the governance of AI," 🔥 "CAIDP restates our objection to web scraping as acceptable to meet the legitimate interest provision of the lawful basis for personal data processing. We maintain that ethical developers should assess alternative data sources or methods to achieve the same goal without using personal data without prior consent." 🔥 "We restate the premise that the most effective method for upholding the individual rights of data subjects is to minimize the processing of their personal data in line with the Data Minimization Principle." 🔥 "The role of Data Protection Authorities in enforcement is paramount. The UK GDPR provides a strong regulatory umbrella for privacy and data protection. Clear redress mechanisms and remedies must be in place to achieve accountability for the design, development, or deployment of AI systems that infringe upon individual rights." 🔥 "AI systems should be human-centric, designed with justice, democratic values, and human rights at the core. General AI purpose systems pose multiple privacy risks, including loss of data confidentiality, lack of transparency, absence of control over how data is used. These risks are augmented when considering ethical impacts and human rights infringements." ➡ We thank the ICO for this opportunity to provide our opinion on the Fourth call for evidence: Engineering Individual Rights in AI Models. We trust you will consider our views and look forward to further engagement in the ICO public consultation process." #aigovernance #gdpr Merve Hickok Marc Rotenberg Grace S. Thomson Christabel R. Ren Bin Lee Dixon Caroline Friedman Levy Selin Ozbek Cittone

📢 CAIDP Update 6.23 - AI Policy New (June 10, 2024) 🇺🇸 U.S. Regulators to Probe AI Giants as Researchers Demand Greater Transparency 🇦🇺 Australia Proposes Penalties for Non-Consensual Deepfakes noyb.eu Files Complaints Against Meta and Microsoft for User Privacy Violations 🇪🇺 EU Tackles AI Risks, Data Protection, and Surveillance 🇮🇹 CAIDP Provides Comments on AI Priorities Ahead of G7 Summit ➡ CAIDP Welcomes 2024 Interns to Washington, DC! #aigovernance #deepfakes #gdpr #dataprotection #g7

📢 CAIDP Provides Comments on AI Priorities Ahead of G7 Summit Building on earlier statements to the G7, the Center for AI and Digital Policy set out several recommendations when G7 leaders meet next week in Apulia, Italy for the annual summit. 🇮🇹 CAIDP said the G7 should ➡ “Take appropriate measures throughout the development of advanced AI systems, including prior to and throughout their deployment and placement on the market, to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle.” (from the Hiroshima Principles) ➡ Require impact assessments for high-risk AI systems prior to deployment ➡ Create clear, enforceable guidelines to guard against the nonconsensual use of personal data and intellectual property to train AI systems ➡ Establish algorithmic transparency as a legal right ➡ Implement the Universal Guidelines for AI Right to Human Determination and Termination Obligation CAIDP also acknowledged the recent statements of the G7 Digital Ministers who said in March: 🔥 "We are aware of the evolving and complex challenges that digital technologies, including AI, pose with respect to protecting human rights, including privacy, and of the risks to personal data protection, security and safety, intellectual property, the environment, and of widening digital divides, including the gender digital divide." 🔥 ". . . it is more apparent than ever that the development, deployment, and use of AI systems should respect the rule of law, due process, democracy, human rights, including privacy, and protect personal data and intellectual property, including by promoting transparency, fairness, and accountability, while preventing and mitigating possible misuse and abuse." CAIDP maintains a webpage with a history of the organization's work with the G7 on AI policy - https://lnkd.in/ge48qrhJ #aigovernance #g7 Nidhi Sinha Marc Rotenberg Merve Hickok Evelina Ayrapetyan Caroline Friedman Levy

🌪 EJ's Sneha Revanur Calls for End to AI's Culture of Secrecy 🔥 🔥 🔥 Encode Justice founder (and former CAIDP intern 😀 ) Sneha Revanur writes for TIME that "We Must Put an End to AI's Culture of Secrecy." 🔥 "The past few weeks, in my view, signal an evisceration of trust in the companies helming a world-changing project: ushering in superhuman intelligence. The people developing large-scale AI, and externalizing its large-scale risks, seemingly couldn’t care less about what anyone else thinks—it’s a new kind of Manifest Destiny. " 🔥 "Encode Justice, the movement of young people for safe and equitable AI that I created, is putting forth a constructive vision for the future we want to see. Ahead of last month’s Global AI Safety Summit in Seoul, we released AI 2030, a youth-authored platform urging global action before 2030 on guardrails for AI." 🔥 "And we aren’t standing alone. We’re joined by a coalition of current and former world leaders, AI experts, and civil society actors . . ." 🔥 "Each of us deserves a place in the conversation that will drastically alter the course of our futures. Right now, it’s unfolding entirely behind closed doors. . . . For humanity’s sake, we must all take back the mantle and write the story of our collective future for ourselves. And we must do it now." #aigoverance #YouthLeadership #ActNow https://lnkd.in/eV_jADHQ

📢 NOYB Files Complaints Against Meta, Cites Misuse of Personal Data in AI Systems noyb.eu, the European advocacy organization has filed a series of complaints with European privacy officials, alleging that a proposed change in Meta's business practices violates the #GDPR. None of Your Business has filed 11 distinct complaints, asking authorities to launch an urgency procedure to stop this change before it comes into force on 26 June 2024. 🔥 Max Schrems: "Meta is basically saying that it can use 'any data from any source for any purpose and make it available to anyone in the world', as long as it’s done via 'AI technology'. This is clearly the opposite of GDPR compliance. 'AI technology' is an extremely broad term. Much like 'using your data in databases', it has no real legal limit. Meta doesn't say what it will use the data for, so it could either be a simple chatbot, extremely aggressive personalised advertising or even a killer drone. Meta also says that user data can be made available to any 'third party' - which means anyone in the world." 🔥 Max Schrems: "The European Court of Justice has already made it clear that Meta has no 'legitimate interest' to override users' right to data protection when it comes to advertising. Yet the company is trying to use the same arguments for the training of undefined 'AI technology'. It seems that Meta is once again blatantly ignoring the judgements of the CJEU." 🔥 Max Schrems: "Shifting the responsibility to the user is completely absurd. The law requires Meta to get opt-in consent, not to provide a hidden and misleading opt-out form. If Meta wants to use your data, they have to ask for your permission. Instead, they make users beg to be excluded. We were particularly surprised that Meta has even went to the trouble of builing in tons of little distractions to ensure that only a tiny number of users would actually bother to object." CAIDP Executive Director Marc Rotenberg has previously explained that the enforcement of privacy rights is the foundation for AI governance - "Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values, The Role of Data Protection," 7 European Data Protection Law Review 496-501 (2021) - https://lnkd.in/ebMMQgja #austria, #belgium, #france, #germany, #greece, #italy, #ireland, #netherlands, #norway, #poland, #spain Georgetown University Law Center #aigovernance Lexxion Publisher https://lnkd.in/gtcnaCgv

The Center for AI and Digital Policy welcomes our 2024 interns to Washington DC! CAIDP is pleased to welcome to DC our summer 2024 interns: Kyler Zhou, Princeton University Kara Solange Kelawan, Harvard Law School Sammy Duggasani, Harvard Kennedy School Kaely Hall, Georgia Institute of Technology Giulia Kneaher, Harvard Kennedy School Ruoyu Liu, Georgetown Law School Jamie Gonzalez, Duke University Our summer 2024 cohort brings many skills and interests to CAIDP - AI ethics and education, Human-centric AI, government surveillance, identity politics, responsible AI, human-centered computing, the Global South, algorithmic bias, consumer protection, public policy, and neuroscience. They will be involved in a wide range of projects including AI policy research and analysis, publications, coalitions, legislative oversight, and more. We also look forward to working this summer with our friends at Encode Justice - Sunny Gandhi Sneha Revanur Adam Billen Christabel R. #aigovernance #futureleaders